IMPACTVM. Mapping the impact of the Augustan colonies on the Early Roman Empire
Augustus founded several dozen colonies and settled Italian veterans in them during his reign (27 BC-14 AD). The exact number of colonies is still uncertain, but this large set of cities is scattered across the whole contour of the Mediterranean Sea and in three different continents. Augustan colonisation is fundamental for understanding the de- and reterritorializing processes that occurred during the creation of the social, political, and administrative structure of the early Roman Empire. From Augustus’ words , we can observe the importance of the colonisation project, not only in terms of political purposes, but also as a migration policy oriented towards specific aims. Augustus implemented the colonial model developed during the Republic and used mainly in Italy. Republican colonies were understood like small islands of Roman civilization from the colonial and imperialist vision.
The epigraphy produced in veteran colonies is a key source for our understanding of how Latin and epigraphy was spread in local communities across the Roman world.
Taking the first epigraphic habit of the veteran colonies of this age, we can study the deterritorialising method of the Augustan strategy and rewrite Roman colonisation at the beginning of the Empire. Considering these issues, the objectives of IMPACTVM are:
1. Analysis of the conditions of the penetration and methods of implantation of the first Latin Epigraphy of provinces through veteran colonies (1st century).
2. Identification of agents and epigraphic methods of colonial implantation.
3. Investigation of the colonial disruption of cosmology and world view from abstraction and the creation of written spaces.
4. Creation of an innovative poly-comparative scientific analytical and theoretical model between West and East.
To carry out this research, a total of 6 study cases have been selected due to the colonial impact in their territory and local communities and their important Augustan corpus of inscriptions.
• (c1) colonia Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain) in Lusitania
• (c2) colonia Augusta Lugdunum (Lyon, France) in Gallia
• (c3) colonia Iulia Carthago (Carthage, Tunisia) in Africa
• (c4) colonia Iulia Corinthus (Corinth, Greece) in Achaia
• (c5) colonia Iulia Augusta Philippensis (Filippoi, Greece) in Macedonia
• (c6) colonia Iulia Nobilis Cnossus (Knossos, Greece) in Creta et Cyrenaica
Libri
ESPAÑA-CHAMORRO, Sergio (2022), La imagen etnogeográfica del sur la Península Ibérica en la Antigüedad: de Iberia a Hispania, de Turdetania a Baetica, 157 pags. (Universidad de Murcia – Anejos de Antigüedad y Cristianismo IX), ISBN (978-84-124892-6-2). https://revistas.um.es/ayc/issue/view/21001
Libri a cura
ESPAÑA-CHAMORRO, Sergio (ed.) (2025): Bornes milliaires de l’Europe romaine, Ausonius Èditions, serie Scripta Antiqua 196, Burdeos. ISBN : 978-2-35613.
ESPAÑA-CHAMORRO, Sergio; MORENO ESCOBAR, M.C. (eds.) (2025): Landscapes and the Augustan Revolution. The Transformation of the Western Provinces between the Republic and the Early Empire, Editorial Routledge, Global Perspectives on Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology Series, Londres. ISBN: 9781032411026. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003356288
ESPAÑA-CHAMORRO, Sergio; GREGORI, G.L. (eds.) (2025): Tra la tardo-repubblica e l’età augustea: economia, politica, religione nelle loro riflessi epigrafiche”, Editorial Quasar, Tituli 11, Roma. ISBN 978-88-5491-562-6. https://doi.org/10.48235/1157
Articoli
ESPAÑA-CHAMORRO, S. (2024), “Leggere i confini. L'inizio dell'epigrafia latina dei limiti: i primi termini lapidei in Italia”, Linguarum varietas: an International Journal 13 (special volume I. Simón Cornago y P. Poccetti (ed.) Siste et lege: La scrittura esposta nelle società dell’Italia antica (secoli III-Ia.C.)), 109-134. https://doi.org/10.19272/202411601007
ESPAÑA-CHAMORRO, S. (2024), “L’inscription d’Ateriana Acepta”, Chroniques d'Archéologie Maghrébine 2, 67-68.
ESPAÑA-CHAMORRO, S. (2024), “Spécificités onomastiques de quatre inscriptions funéraires d'Afrique Proconsulaire”, Epigraphica 86, 151-8.
ESPAÑA-CHAMORRO, S. (2023), “The mausoleum of Iulii at Mustis (Africa Proconsularis). Onomastic and familiar relationship” Gephyra 26, 55-68. https://doi.org/10.37095/gephyra.1268129
ESPAÑA-CHAMORRO, S. (2023), “Relieve funerario republicano de los hermanos Terpolii procedente de Italia central”, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 226, 221-222.
ESPAÑA-CHAMORRO, S. & GREGORI, G. (2023), “I tetrarchi a Mustis (Africa Proconsolare). Nuove iscrizioni dal Fondo Poinssot (Paris)”, Scienze dell'Antichità 29.1, 225-239.
ESPAÑA-CHAMORRO, S. (2024 [2022]), “Mustis revisited. Unpublished inscriptions from the Parisian archives” Libyan Studies 55, 85-94 https://doi.org/10.1017/lis.2022.2 y https://doi.org/10.1017/lis.2024.10
ESPAÑA-CHAMORRO, S. (2022), “Words in context: the use of fecit in the milestones of Roman Hispania”, Pallas. Revue d’Études Antiques 120, 123-134. https://doi.org/10.4000/pallas.25749
Capitoli
ESPAÑA-CHAMORRO, S. (2025), “Augustus and the transformation of the Roman road network in the Western provinces. An epigraphical perspective”, en S. España-Chamorro, y M.C. Moreno Escobar, (eds.) Landscapes and the Augustan Revolution. The Transformation of the Western Provinces between the Republic and the Early Empire, Routledge, Global Perspectives on Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology Series, Londres, 17-55. ISBN: 9781032411026.
ESPAÑA-CHAMORRO, S. y MORENO ESCOBAR, M.C. (2025), “Augustus and the Provincial Landscapes. A Global Revolution”, en S. España-Chamorro, y M.C. Moreno Escobar, (eds.) Landscapes and the Augustan Revolution. The Transformation of the Western Provinces between the Republic and the Early Empire, Routledge, Global Perspectives on Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology Series, Londres, 1-16. ISBN: 9781032411026.
ESPAÑA-CHAMORRO, S. (2025): Augustus and the Epigraphic Impact in the Provinces of the Early Roman Empire: An Afterword’, en: S. España-Chamorro y G.L. Gregori (eds.): Tra la tardo-repubblica e l’età augustea: economia, politica, religione nelle loro riflessi epigrafiche, Quasar, serie Tituli 11, Roma, 431-448. ISBN 978-88-5491-562-6.
ESPAÑA-CHAMORRO, S. & GREGORI, G.L. (2025): ‘Prefazione’, en: S. España-Chamorro y G.L. Gregori (eds.): Tra la tardo-repubblica e l’età augustea: economia, politica, religione nelle loro riflessi epigrafiche, Quasar, serie Tituli 11, Roma, 1-4. ISBN 978-88-5491-562-6.
ESPAÑA-CHAMORRO, S. (2024): “Hábito y dinámicas epigráficas del conventus Cordubensis (valle del Guadalquivir)”, en J.M. Campos Carrasco y J. Bermejo Meléndez (eds.), Ciudades romanas de la provincia Baetica. Corpus Vrbium Baeticarum: conventus Cordubensis et Gaditanus, Huelva, Publicaciones de la Universidad de Huelva: Onoba Monografías), 133-50.
ESPAÑA-CHAMORRO, S. (2024): “Los primeros miliarios de África y la política viaria durante la época julio-claudia” en S. Aounallah – F. Hurlet – P. Ruggeri ed., L’Africa antica dall’età repubblicana ai Giulio-Claudii. L’Africa romana, XXII, Sassari, 289-307. ISBN: 9788829024162.
ESPAÑA-CHAMORRO, S. & GONZÁLEZ BORDAS, H. (2024), “Dispensator regio Zeugitanae: à propos d’une nouvelle inscription du cimetière des officiales”, S. Aounallah et L. Nadari (ed.), Fragments d’histoire et d’épigraphie romaines. Hommages offerts à Zeineb Benzina Ben Abdallah, Túnez, 111-24.
ESPAÑA-CHAMORRO, S. (2024): “Between tradition and innovation: Place names and the geography of power in the Late Republic and Early Roman Empire in Hispania”, en S. Betjes, O. Hekster, and E. Manders (eds.), Tradition and Power in the Roman Empire, Editorial: Brill (collection IMEM 50), Leiden, 90-109, ISBN: 978-90-04-53746-0. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004537460_008
ESPAÑA-CHAMORRO, S. (2024): “Between Mauretania and Numidia. Provincial boundaries, land connections and imperial administration in North Africa (1st–4th centuries AD)”, en E. Mataix, A. López, A. Álvarez Melero y D. Romero (eds.) Law and Power: Agents of Social and Spatial Transformation in the Roman West, Brill (collection IMEM 49), Leiden, 191-217, ISBN: 978-90-04-68572-7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004685734_011
LIMÓN BELEN, M. y ESPAÑA CHAMORRO, S. (2023), “Verses for Eternity: The Carmina Latina Epigraphica in funerary contexts”, en N. Conejo Delgado (ed.), Il valore dei gesti e dei oggetti: monete e altri elementi in contesti funerari, All'Insegna del Giglio, Sesto Fiorentino, 225-229. DOI: https://doi.org/10.36153/monoarc148.18
ESPAÑA-CHAMORRO, S. GREGORI, G. (2023): “Novità epigrafiche del municipium Sava (Mauretania Caesariensis) dal Fond Salama (INHA, Parigi)”, M.F. Petraccia (ed.), E pluribus Roma. Caleidoscopio storico per comprendere e parlare della pluralità del mondo romano, De Ferrari Editore, Génova, 57-70. https://hal.science/hal-04289684v1
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship. Grant Agreement nº 101025799. 171,473.28€
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