Ponderais romanos na Lusitânia: padrões, formas, materiais e contextos de utilização

Abstract

The weight systems and their testimonies are one of the most evident signs to identify of cultural groups. However, this type of material has received very little attention among historians and archaeologists due to its low material and formal attractive. The compilation of finds in the Lusitanian area has allowed to observe interesting details about the Roman implantation system. The finds in military settlement and indigenous oppida contexts are very revealing the coexistence and, later, the substitution of local patterns for the Roman. For precisely this reason, we have focused our interest on examining the materials these pieces are made of, their shapes, their values and their finding context.