Roman Voting Tribes, Citizenship, and Epigraphic Habit: The Case Study of Hispania Citerior
Inscriptions and the Epigraphic Habit: The Epigraphic Cultures of Greece, Rome, and Beyond : 81-94 (2023)
Laburpena
This paper analyses the epigraphic evidence from Hispania Citerior that mentions Roman voting tribe and its connection to the epigraphic habit. Provincial elites used it in their public self-representation in different epigraphic contexts but, particularly, in honorific inscriptions. As a result, Roman citizenship could be epigraphically underrepresented in regions where the honorific epigraphic habit was uncommon. A good example of this epigraphic bias is found in the public dedications to provincial priests in Tarraco, since these inscriptions make visible Roman citizens from the NW of Hispania Citerior, where information about social promotion is otherwise limited.