Nueva ceca visigoda: Lorca (Iliocri[ca]) y sus nexos con las cecas del sur

• Autores: Andrew Kurt, Peter Bartlett
• Localización: Numisma: revista de Estudios Numismáticos, ISSN 0029-6015, Nº. 241, 1998, págs. 27-39
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen
  • español

    Recientemente ha aparecido un tremis de Sisenando (631-636) de ceca ILIOCRI (??). Estamos convencidos de que la moneda es de Eliocroca, conocida hoy por su nombre arabizado, Lorca. En época imperial, Eliocroca era la primera mansio al oeste de la portuaria Cartago Nova, a 44 millas de ella siguiendo la Via Augusta, que unía Cartago Nova con Tarraco hacia el noreste y hacia el oeste con Acci (actual Guadix el Viejo) y Castulo. Se menciona a Lorca como una de las siete ciudades del Pacto de Teodomiro y Abd al-Aziz en 713.

    El tipo de la pieza (MILES 5f) es el usado en las cecas de la Bética y sur de la Cartaginense durante el reinado de Sisenando. El estilo parece atribuible a la mano de un grabador que trabajó en Acci, Córdoba, Eliberri, Mentesa, Tucci y Castelona desde Sisebuto a Chintila. Esta región ofrece una extraordinaria cantidad de acuñaciones durante los reinados de Sisebuto a Sisenando, asociada probablemente con la reconquista de la zona a los bizantinos y la necesidad de protegerla de una posible reinvasión. Tras la destrucción de la capital bizantina en Cartagena (ca. 625), Eliocroca debió tener una importancia estratégica para la administración y la defensa de la zona contra las represalias bizantinas. Eliocroca es la única ceca visigoda conocida hoy en la amplia zona de la Cartaginense entre Acci y Valentia (Tarraconense).

  • English

    A tremissis of the Visigothic king Sisenand (631-636) with the mint name of Iliocri (??) appeared recently in Swiss Bank Sale 42. After reviewing the recorded names of cities from Roman to Visigothic times, we are convinced that the coin is from the city of Eliocroca, a city with many spelling variations including Eliocrica, known today by its arabicized name Lorca. The E and I were interchangeable in the morph Eli as evidenced in the Visigothic mint of Eliberri in the same region and period. The coin is missing a piece that could hold two final letters which were probably «ca», giving the full reading of the mint name on the coin as Iliocrica.

    During the Roman Imperial period Eliocroca was the first mansio to the West of major port city of Carthago Nova (Cartagena), located 44 miles from it on the Via Augusta. The Via Augusta connected Carthago Nova with Tarracona to the Northeast, and to the west lead to Acci (modern Guadix el Viejo) and on to Castulo. Lorca is mentioned as one of the seven cites in the pact between the Visigothic lord Theodomir and Abd al-Aziz. in 713.

    The type of the coin (MILES 5f) is that used in the mints of Baetica and southern Carthaginensis during the reign of Sisenand. The style of the coins appears to be from the hands of a die engraver who worked in the mints of Acci, Cordoba, Eliberri, Mentesa, Tucci and Castelona in the reigns of Suinthila to Chintila. This region showed an extraordinary minting of coins during the reigns from Sisebut to Sisenand probably associated with the reconquest of the area from the Byzantines and the need to protect the area from possible reinvasion. After the destruction of the Byzantine capital of Cartagena in ca. 625, Eliocroca might have been of strategic importance for the administration and protection of the area from reprisals of the Byzantines. Eliocroca is the only Visigothic mint known to date in the vast area of Carthaginensis between Acci and Valentia (in Tarraconensis).