Alejandro G. Sinner

• Doctor of Philosophy (University of Barcelona)
• Professor (Associate) at University of Victoria

El libro que cuenta con un prólogo escrito por el Dr. Ñaco del Hoyo, esta dedicado exclusivamente al estudio de la moneda ibérica. El volumen se inicia con un breve contexto general donde se ofrece un estado actual de la cuestión sobre las emisiones ibéricas de la Ulterior y del N.E. de la Citerior. Tras presentar los últimos avances en el campo de...

The analysis of the epigraphic documents from various sites in the Cabrera de Mar valley reveals a clear predominance of Iberian script over Latin, not only in the Iberian oppidum of Burriac, but also in the late-Republican settlement located in the modern centre of the village of Cabrera de Mar; both probably to be identified in ancient times as t...

This paper focus on a century of interaction between a colonial agent (Rome) and an indigenous people (known in classical texts as the Laietani), who inhabited the area before the arrival of the conquerors. This paper investigates how contact between the two societies may be detected in the archaeological record, and, where possible, what changes i...

Three “Dionysus / panther” coins are known from Catalonia, one from excavations at Cabrera de Mar. This is a key component of the Central Italian Assemblage of the Italo-Baetican series, and dates to the late 90s/early 80s BC. The excavation coin probably arrived during the Sertorian Wars (80–72 BC), certainly before 50 BC. We therefore review evid...

Numismatic finds whose provenance is reliably known give us the possibility of evaluateing in details the territories where the coinage was identified and used. The population patterns and the travel routes networks are factors that determinate the dispersion of the coins. We ought not forget that it is people who carry the coins and move using tho...

This book establishes a foundation for the study of ancient demography in the Iberian peninsula, focusing on its largest province, Hispania Citerior (renamed as Tarraconensis in the Early Empire). The authors follow a multidisciplinary approach that includes compiled archaeological, epigraphic, architectonic, osteological, and genetic datasets. The...

This book establishes a foundation for the study of ancient demography in the Iberian peninsula, focusing on its largest province, Hispania Citerior (renamed as Tarraconensis in the Early Empire). The authors follow a multidisciplinary approach that includes compiled archaeological, epigraphic, architectonic, osteological, and genetic datasets. The...

This book establishes a foundation for the study of ancient demography in the Iberian peninsula, focusing on its largest province, Hispania Citerior (renamed as Tarraconensis in the Early Empire). The authors follow a multidisciplinary approach that includes compiled archaeological, epigraphic, architectonic, osteological, and genetic datasets. The...

This book establishes a foundation for the study of ancient demography in the Iberian peninsula, focusing on its largest province, Hispania Citerior (renamed as Tarraconensis in the Early Empire). The authors follow a multidisciplinary approach that includes compiled archaeological, epigraphic, architectonic, osteological, and genetic datasets. The...

This book establishes a foundation for the study of ancient demography in the Iberian peninsula, focusing on its largest province, Hispania Citerior (renamed as Tarraconensis in the Early Empire). The authors follow a multidisciplinary approach that includes compiled archaeological, epigraphic, architectonic, osteological, and genetic datasets. The...

This book establishes a foundation for the study of ancient demography in the Iberian peninsula, focusing on its largest province, Hispania Citerior (renamed as Tarraconensis in the Early Empire). The authors follow a multidisciplinary approach that includes compiled archaeological, epigraphic, architectonic, osteological, and genetic datasets. The...

This book establishes a foundation for the study of ancient demography in the Iberian peninsula, focusing on its largest province, Hispania Citerior (renamed as Tarraconensis in the Early Empire). The authors follow a multidisciplinary approach that includes compiled archaeological, epigraphic, architectonic, osteological, and genetic datasets. The...

Various groups of coins are given to the Ibero-Ligurian Elisyces of the Narbonnaise. Research has however so far concentrated on cataloguing site-finds and identifying and placing individual issues, without attempting to understand their structure, or the overall monetary environment. We here present four studies of coins from Montlaurès, which may...

This article presents A Matching Algorithm for Lead Isotope Analyses (AMALIA) that yields analytical coincidences in lead isotope databases, allowing a fast selection of potential candidates for metal provenance. As a proof of concept, potential ore sources for 29 Roman lead artifacts from the archaeological site of Fuente Spitz (Jaén, Spain) are p...

The volume id devoted to cults, rituals, identities and cultural change and exchange in the Iberian Peninsula during the transition from the late Republic to the early Empire necessary. Political and socioeconomic interactions led to cultural change and the formation of a whole spectrum of local and regional identities as a response to the new situ...

Sanctuaries are common spaces of interaction between humankind and the gods. In many religious systems, mountains and other elevated topographical features are known to have formed part of these privileged spaces of communication. It is not surprising that open-air and, in many cases, rock sanctuaries are the cultic spaces par excellence among the...

This paper aims to reconstruct the vicissitudes that have followed the study of one of the most interesting Roman archaeological sites in Catalonia: the rural sanctuary of Can Modolell. The site was excavated between 1974 and 1984 by the Archaeological Section of the Mataró Museum (SAMM) and has been the subject of some isolated interventions in la...

This paper presents a chemical characterization by means of WDXRF and mineralogical characterization by means of XRD of 21 individuals of black gloss pottery from the excavations on the acropolis of Populonia. The results shed new light on the circulation of pottery to this major urban centre in North Etruria during the Roman Republican period, whi...

This study uses faunal and epigraphic evidence from the valley of Cabrera de Mar in present-day Catalonia (Spain) as proxies for understanding complex processes and dynamics of cultural change between the late Iron Age and early Roman times. The faunal remains indicate significant dietary change, although the epigraphic evidence implies that langua...

El objetivo de este artículo es aportar nuevos datos sobre la cerámica de barniz negro tardorrepublicana distribuida en Empúries, que nos permitan avanzar en su origen, así como profundizar en aspectos relacionados con su proceso de fabricación. Para ello, y en el marco de un proyecto más amplio que incluye el análisis de diversos yacimientos de la...

This article presents an unpublished Roman lead ingot from the Guerra collection (Roses, Girona) with a Latin stamp that reads Q•HATERI•GALLI. Based on its typological, paleographic and formal characteristics, it should be dated to the early 1st century CE. The article includes a typological and epigraphic study of the ingot in addition to an isoto...

This paper examines the fractional silver coinage issued by the colony of Rhode, located at the northernmost point of the Bay of Roses, and one of the only two poleis to mint Greek coinage in the Iberian Peninsula. The mint of Rhode struck drachms between c. 300 and c. 230/225 BC, the characteristics and production levels of which are fairly well k...

In the 2019 Numismatic Chronicle, two of us published a comparative isotopic analysis of the struck lead from Minturnae and the grandes plomos monetiformes of Ulterior Baetica. We showed that the Italians exploited the coastal mines at Cartagena-Mazzarón before those of the Sierra Morena. We also used epigraphic evidence to identify gentes present...

The lead stock with the double Iberian inscription baitolo is significant not only for the field of Iberian epigraphy, but also for our understanding of the maritime wine trade taking place in the Western Mediterranean during the 1st century BC. The most feasible interpretation for the inscription baitolo is to consider it as a place name, either a...

El objetivo de este artículo es reinterpretar un conocido yacimiento subacuático en Las Amoladeras, en La Manga del Mar Menor, cerca de Cabo de Palos. Para ello, tras llevar a cabo una revisión historiográfica de la bibliografía existente, se han estudiado, contextualizado y realizado análisis isotópicos de algunos de los materiales más interesante...

In this article, we study the provenance of the lead contained in 22 objects found in the excavations conducted since 1998 on the ancient site of Ilduro (Cabrera de Mar, Barcelona), located in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula. A selection of 12 bronze coins and 10 lead objects recovered from households, workshops, and the public baths of the...

The aim of this article is to reinterpret a well-known underwater archaeological site located at Las Amoladeras, in La Manga del Mar Menor, near Cabo de Palos. For this purpose, after a historiographical review of the existing bibliography, we have studied, contextualized and undertaken isotopic analyses of some of the most interesting material fro...

The lead stock in the Guerra collection is the first of its category found with an Iberian inscription: baitolo. The most feasible interpretation is to consider it as a place name, either as the name of the city of baitolo/Baetulo, the modern Badalona, which issued coins with the legend baitolo in the 2nd quarter of the 1st c. BC, or as the name of...

Ancient demography is a recurrent topic in archaeology, thanks to new methods and evidence from different surveys and excavations. However, different cultures or periods are studied on their own, without any comparison being made between them and of their population dynamics. The present paper seeks to advance the situation by defining methodologie...

In order to improve archaeological classifications of Late Republican Black Gloss pottery, an assemblage from two consumption sites in north-eastern Hispania has been physicochemically characterized to identify its provenance and to gain an idea of its manufacture process. The study has been organized according to a multiphase sampling (Buxeda i Ga...

The considerable linguistic variety in the Iberian peninsula in the pre-Roman period was reflected in inscriptions on coinage. Greek and Punic scripts were used in the colonies and cities with settlers belonging to these cultural groups. The North-eastern Iberian signary was used in the Iberian area and and was borrowed in order to write the Celtib...

Two large complexes of struck lead pieces, from the Roman colony of Minturnae and from Baetica (southern Spain) in the late Republic, have been documented in recent years. There are close and unique iconographic parallels between them. We accordingly undertook an analysis of the isotopic signatures of the leads used in the two areas, to see if this...

We here present thirteen graffiti on ceramic vessels recovered from the various archaeological sites of Cabrera de Mar. Unfortunately, the inscriptions are short, all of one or two signs, but attest to the use of the Iberian script in the Cabrera de Mar valley during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, and confirm that the inhabitants of Ilduro used the...

Massalia and the Gauls: an interdisciplinary view from the standpoint of its territory - SOPHIE BOUFFIER ET DOMINIQUE GARCIA (sous la direction de), LES TERRITOIRES DE MARSEILLE ANTIQUE (Collection Les Hespérides; éditions errance, Arles2014), Pp. 239, many figs. ISSN 2101-2849; ISBN 978-2-87772-579-8. EUR. 39. - Volume 31 - Alejandro G. Sinner

Two further coins of the Pompeian pseudomint are published; like those published in AJN 2015, both are of the relatively small Group A, which mixes Ebusan, Massaliot, and Roman types. They probably relate to the huge wine trade from the Vesuvian area in the second and first centuries bc.1 Earlier consideration of three coins of the pseudo-mint in P...

The minting of coinage in a territory without previous monetary history or tradition reflects a series of political, social and cultural changes that took place in order to make it possible. Such changes can be traced in the archaeological record thanks to elements apparently as different as coins, ceramics, epigraphy, funerary rites or architectur...

Rural cults are an aspect of the religion and culture of Roman Hispania that it is especially difficult to analyze given the paucity of epigraphic and archaeological evidence. This is quite a recent area of research; in addition, we are dealing with often modest religious practices that are difficult to identify in the archaeological record. Partic...

A plomo monetiforme from excavations at Cerro Lucena, above Śaitabi (modern X.tiva) carries both a North-Iberian script (not so far attested on these issues), and one of the diagnostic images of the Italo-Baetican series: two strigils and an aryballos. We describe the archaeological context, and analyse the legends. We show that the Baetican assemb...

La inscripción analizada en este trabajo contiene un texto breve y fragmentado que permite plausiblemente reconstruir un nuevo antropónimo ibérico: [la]kubalka[r]. Su cronología paleográfica es compatible con la habitual de los ss. II-I a.C. Aunque estrictamente la cronología del yacimiento donde ha aparecido, un centro vitivinícola productor de án...

In Saguntum 46, 2014, pp. 159–180, we published three “Dionysus / panther” coins of the Central Italian Assemblage of the Italo-Baetican series from Catalonia. This led us to explore numismatic and other indices of contacts between central Italy, Hispania Citerior and Ulterior. We now illustrate four further “panthers” from Andalusia, which appear...

The preventive archaeological diggings carried out in Barcelona St. (Cabrera de Mar, El Maresme), uncovered a local-common, coarse-tempered oxidant pottery typologically identified as an operculum, dated to the second quarter of the first century B.C. This item had an ante cocturam engraved inscription: a tria nomina A.VAL.A, most probably the name...

Hace más de 25 años que se publicó el primer ensayo sobre la circulación monetaria en el valle de Cabrera de Mar (El Maresme, Barcelona), aprovechando que se acababa de excavar una posible cisterna en el oppidum ibérico de Burriac situado en este mismo municipio. Gracias a la actualización de los hallazgos realizados en el oppidum de Burriac, publi...

El objetivo de este trabajo , lejos de realizar un estudio monográfico sobre la ceca de Ilturo, es llevar a cabo un texto que ofrezca al lector un estado actual de la cuestión. Como en todo trabajo de síntesis, corremos el riesgo de simplificar en demasía la argumentación de los distintos apartados, aun así, pensamos que resultará más interesante u...

This article analyzes the Iberian inscription of twenty-eight signs that contains a spindle-whorl appeared at the site Can Rodon (Cabrera de Mar). Particularly noteworthy is the presence of the element kutu(r) of unknown significance, but very common in lead sheets, painted inscriptions on pottery and rock inscriptions and also in another spindle-w...

This communication studies the coins found in the archaeological excavations conducted between 2006 and 2010 in the property of " Can Rodon de L'Hort" (Cabrera de Mar, Barcelona). It is a collection of 28 pieces most of which are Iberian. These excavations belong to two different, but superposed sites of diverse chronology. The first is the alread...