Tiempo e identidad : La datación por la Era en las inscripciones de la España Tardorromana y Visigoda

Authors

  • Mark A. Handley University College London

Abstract

The inscriptions of Late Antique and Visigothic Spain contain a large number of epitaphs supplied with an aera date. Scholarship has so far been interested in the origins, distribution and longevity of this dating system, but has not attempted to give an explication of what functions, other than simply dating, this reckoning system may have had. This article attempts to rectify this and to try and place the uses of aera dating in a series of specific contexts. It is argued that the one of the uses of aera dating was its role in expressing a religious, regional and possibly ethnic identity during the Late Antique and Visigothic periods.

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Published

2013-05-07

Issue

Vol. 2 (1999)

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