WEIGHTS FROM ANCIENT LUSITANIA

The divulgation of the research results and knowledge of other specialists in this field is one of the main objectives of the project. For this reason, in November 2020 we took part in the III Congresso da Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses where we presented a poster. It contained a compilation and analysis of the Roman weights published in the territory corresponding to the ancient province of Lusitania. In this way, we carried out an analysis of the context of discovery, weight, material and morphology, among other aspects.

Weights found in Lusitania (Barrios, 2020: 1321, fig. 3).

This research was later expressed in a longer article published in the Proceedings of the Congress. In it, we provided information about the context in which each object was discovered. This analysis addressed the process of the conquest and the assimilation of Roman culture in Lusitania, where weights evidence a first period of adaptation.

Link to the paper: http://museuarqueologicodocarmo.pt/actas_ III_congresso.html

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