The epigraphic corpus of the provincial capitals and some convent capitals of Hispania, as well as of other cities, offers an important documentation, due to its quantity and diversity, to analyse some of the effects generated by geographical mobility in the interaction between social groups. In this urban framework, certain groups (the military; the elites) provide a relatively large amount of information that seems to be related to a particular situation (status, social condition, qualification) and to the conditions of their mobility and residence in certain contexts. On the other hand, the mobility of traders and certain groups marked by the exercise of an infamous activity has left a limited trace.This situation indicates that the various groups in provincial society handled the usual formulas for identifying origin used in the inscriptions in very different ways; or, in some cases, excluded them. Such differences respond to the use of specific strategies for defining personal and collective image, which only needed to indicate origin in some contexts.

El objetivo principal de este trabajo es estudiar las inscripciones relacionadas con la presencia de Africani en las colonias romanas de la provincia Hispania Citerior en los siglos I y II d.C. El análisis de las causas que motivaron su movilidad y también de otros aspectos como su onomástica, sus ocupaciones profesionales y el desarrollo de sus carreras públicas son los ejes fundamentales de esta contribución.

Este trabajo aborda el estudio de la inmigración de origen extrapeninsular domiciliada en la colonia de Barcino, a partir del análisis de la documentación epigráfica. Atenderemos a elementos tales como las regiones y ciudades de origen de estos inmigrantes, sus ocupaciones profesionales, las causas que determinaron su movilidad y el papel que jugaron en Barcino tras su asentamiento en la ciudad. Desde un punto de vista cronológico nuestra contribución está centrada en los siglos I y II d. C.

La participación de tropas de origen hispano en el ejército romano fue frecuente a lo largo del Alto Imperio. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo el estudio de aquellos militares reclutados en las colonias romanas de la Hispania Citerior que fallecieron lejos de las mismas durante su periodo de servicio activo o bien tras recibir la honesta missio y decidir instalarse como veterani en su lugar de destino.

The information provided by the epigraphic corpus from Tarraco allows us to observe the political integration processes implemented during the Imperial period by its "ciues" and the civic communities attached to its provincial administration. This paper analyses these processes using sources concerning "Tarraconenses and 'Hispani/-ae Tarraconenses' ", specifically 73 inscriptions from this epigraphic corpus and 5 external documents, with reference to civic origin ("origo") and/or "conventus" of provenance ("ex conuentu"), residence or domicile ("domus"), or place of birth ("natio")

Traducción del artículo de G. Alföldy en la monografía editada por D. Gorostidi: Géza Alföldy. Estudios tarraconenses. Prólogo de Jordi López Vilar.

The group of the seviri Augustales, composed mainly by freedmen and closely related to commercial activities, had an important role in the processes of social and geographic mobility along the western provinces of the Early Roman Empire. In this paper, we will analyse the epigraphic sources with documented geographic mobility involving seviri Augustales in the territory of Gallia Narbonensis, inside this province and in the testimonies that imply movements from or to other territories outside. This analysis will show the main emitting and recipient cities of this kind of mobility, as well as the importance of different maritime and land commercial routes as main axis of the movements of the seviri Augustales. It must be emphasized the high frequency of movements along the course of Rhone River, which was used in most of our testimonies, and also the route along the coast of Gallia Narbonensis or various contacts with neighbour provinces and with the capital of the Empire.

The use of the term "res publica", with reference to collective goods and interests and the institutional management of them by cities and civic communities in the Western Roman Empire, is well documented in the epigraphy of the Imperial era. The three Hispanic "provinciae", particularly "Hispania citerior", for its size and historic-cultural diversification, represent a privileged area for the study of the use of this notion from Roman political vocabulary. It formed part of the essential concept of "civitas" or political community with relative autonomy, depending on a greater or lesser interference in their internal affairs from Roman provincial and state institutions. The study of the "civitates" which are designated as "res publicae" in the epigraphy of these Hispanic "provinciae" allows us to delve deeper into the relevance of its elites, but also into the dynamism of its fellow citizens, both being involved in the undertaking of the services ("honores" and "munera") necessary for optimal civic management, more or less close to the Roman standardised management model represented by the "colonia" and the "municipium".