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Epigraphy. Augusta Emerita. Social Elites. Memory Spaces. Global History.
The present work aims to analyze the practice of epigraphic production linked to the Emeritus social elites as a habit that precedes contact with the Roman Empire, in the establishment of exchange networks, cultural and social confrontations that shape and forge the provincial space of Augusta Emerita as the provincial capital of Lusitania. Between the 1st century B.C. and the second century A.D., we have the progressive growth of epigraphic production linked to specific groups of the emeritus elite that, in some way, are involved in the provincial dynamics, have Latin citizenship and are located through the reproduction and adaptation of cultural practices that form the Emerita's relations with the Empire through the consumption and production of the epigraphic habit. In this way, we propose the analysis of the emeritus epigraphic set linked to the gens of Iulius, Cornelius and Aemilius, among the votive, funerary and, to a lesser extent, imperial epigraphs, to understand and problematize new ways of understanding the Imperium from the provincial spaces, in which the epigraphic literature serves as an indicator of how the networks of customs shared by the elites of the Empire fill the spaces of memory and constitute a living culture of social representation and preservation of family genealogy, in front of the negotiations with Roman domination. Therefore, we intend, methodologically, to analyze the Emeritus epigraphy from two emphases: (1) as a factor linked to the production of memory spaces among the society of Emérita, consequently (2) in a conjunctural context of global practices - in the sense of being and existing in the Empire – which helps the formation of a social elite that transformed the standards of life in provincial locations from the contact and consumption of the new material culture.