La societas argentifodinarum Ilucronensium y la explotacion de las minas romanas de Carthago Noua

Abstract

The article reviews the currently known epigraphic documents relating to the societas argentifodinarum Ilucronensium, which include several lead ingots and three casting moulds that were almost certainly used in their making, as well as a series of lead seals bearing the impressed inscription S·A·I. This collection of material allows for a better understanding of the activities of this important society in the mining district at Mazarrón (Murcia), and provides new data relating to the development of mining and metallurgy in the area around Carthago Nova between the end of the Republic and the early imperial period.