Soportes epigráficos y promoción social: mujeres libertas promotoras de monumentos honoríficos en <em>Tarraco</em> = Epigraphic Media and Social Promotion: Freedwomen Sponsorhip of Honorific Monuments in <em>Tarraco</em
Author(s) -
Teresa Buey Utrilla
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
espacio tiempo y forma serie i prehistoria y arqueología
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2340-1354
pISSN - 1131-7698
DOI - 10.5944/etfi.13.2020.28537
Subject(s) - honor , humanities , guardian , art , political science , law , computer science , operating system
Although deprived from freedom at birth, many freedwomen sought nevertheless to acquire prominent positions in their communities and access influential social environments, for which having a high economic capacity was key. Many of them invested their wealth in honorary dedication, which preserved their civic memory and brought them enormous prestige and honor. The epigraphy from Tarraco documents around twenty cases of women of servile descent who used honorary commemoration in prestigious stone monuments to remember their relatives, friends or patrons. Thus, this text focuses on these freedwomen through their inscriptions, from a social and gender perspective. To this end, an onomastic and prosopographic study has been carried out of each of the protagonists, as well as of the epigraphic supports and their location, in order to establish the common lines of their action.
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