Una nueva lápida ibérica procedente de Civit (Tarragona)

El objetivo de este trabajo es la edición de una nueva inscripción funeraria ibérica hallada en Civit (Tarragona). El estudio de la estructura formular del texto permite postular una hipótesis provisional de interpretación de su contenido: el nombre del muerto con mención a la filiación, una referencia tal vez a su edad y finalmente al nombre del dedicante.

Un falso epígrafe ibérico en el MNAT (Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona)

The purpose of this work is to analyze a false Iberian inscription found in the MNAT. The study of archaeological, epigraphical and palaeographical elements shows that the inscription is a xmth Century falsification.

Sobre una inscripció ibèrica suspecta: MNAT 664

L'objectiu d'aquest treball és reivindicar l'autenticitat d'una inscripció ibèrica conservada al MNAT des de temps antic i condemnada sense causa justificada.

La epigrafía ibérica en la obra de Joan Maluquer

Los trabajos de Joan Maluquer de Motes dedicados directamente a las lenguas y epigrafías paleohispánicas son relativamente poco numerosos, sobre todo si se ponen en comparación con la abundancia de su producción científica en otros dominios. Además, muy raras veces entran de lleno en el ámbito de la lingüística, aspecto poco menos que fundamental cuando se trata, como es el caso, de lenguas in descifradas o de conocimiento muy deficiente. Y, pese a lo dicho, más de treinta años después de publicada la Epigrafía prelatina de la Península Ibérica, pocas contribuciones a los estudios paleohispánicos pueden considerarse tan lúcidas para su tiempo y, lo que es más importante, tan vigentes todavía en el nuestro.

La contribució a l"epigrafia ibèrica de Joan Maluquer de Motes

En l"era de la informació digital, quan l"especialització en els coneixements els ha fet créixer alhora que els ha atomitzat fins al punt que no resulta fàcil tornar a reunir unes branques del saber cada cop més divergents, esdevé un exercici necessari repensar la contribució feta per alguns personatges polièdrics que van precedir-nos i que, amb una innegable capacitat de treball, van saber traçar lúcides línies de recerca simultànies en diversos registres. En especial, urgeix recuperar les generacions"d"enmig", aquells que no es poden definir com a pioners sensu stricto que són els que han despertat més atenció en la historiografia arqueològica , els que partien ja d"algunes tasques iniciades, però que, en la pràctica, no deixaven d"ésser exploradors de camins no trepitjats. Entre aquests, Joan Maluquer de Motes hi ocupa un lloc destacat. Mestre d"un dels signants, el qual pertany a una de les darreres promocions que van arribar a temps de copsar un estil de docència irrepetible, rebuda per uns joves tangencials, atents de forma simultània a la difusió d"altres mètodes de registre dels treballs de camp que corrien de mà en mà per mitjà de fotocòpies deslluïdes durant els primers anys vuitanta. Com no evocar a qui el principi de la malaltia final sorprengué impartint un curs de doctorat sobre epigrafia ibèrica? La contribució de Maluquer en diverses facetes de la prehistòria, la protohistòria i l"organització dels estudis universitaris és enorme, d"això tracten altres treballs reunits en aquest dossier. A la seva profunda mirada d"ulls clars no va escapar l"epigraia paleohispànica, terreny en el qual també va realitzar aportacions no sempre ben compreses, quan no insuficientment valorades.

El plom ibèric escrit del Tossal del Mor (Tàrrega, Urgell)

[spa]El presente trabajo culmina un proyecto dedicado al estudio de cuatro láminas de plomo con escritura ibérica procedentes del área ilergeta, que habñian sido extraídas de forma irregular de forma irregular a principios de la década de los años 80 del pasado siglo y que acabaron en el Instituto de Estudios Ilerdenses. En 2005 se dio a conocer el plomo de Olriols (Sant Esteve de Llitera), en 2009 los plomos 1 y 2 de Monteró (Camarasa) y ahora finalmente el plomo del Tossal del Mor (Tárrega). Este texto es muy corto, sólo consta de cuatro segmentos, todos posiblemete antropónimos sin ningún morfo añadido. Desde el punto de vista paleográfico, es significativo que por primera vez se documente un signo dual ko complejo en la zona ilergeta. Mientras que del léxico, cabe destacar que en uno de los antroponimos se documenta por primera vez con claridad en una inscripción ibérica el elemento iber. Independientemente de su significado parece plausible su relación con el etnónimo o con el río con los que antiguos griegos y romanos identificaban a los íberos. [eng]This work is the culmination of a project dedicated to the study of four sheets of lead with Iberian writing from the Ilerget area that had been extracted without authorisation in the early 1980s and that found way to the Institut d"Estudis Ilerdencs (Lleida). In 2005, the lead from Olriols (Sant Esteve de Llitera) was presented, as were lead sheets 1 and 2 from Monteró (Camarasa) in 2009 and now finally the lad piece from Tossal del Mor (Tàrrega). The text is very short, with only four segments, all possibly anthroponyms without any added morph. From the palaeographic point of view, it is significant that, for the first time, a complex dual ko sign is documented in the Ilerget area. Regarding the lexis, it is of note that in one of the anthroponyms the element ibeŕ is documented clearly for the first time in an Iberian inscription. Independently of its meaning, it seems plausible to link it to the ethnonym or the river with which the ancient Greeks and Romans identified the Iberians.

Abiner, Abinericus, Abinnericus

Interpretación de las estampillas ibero-romanas sobre mortero de Caminreal como textos no equivalentes entre sí, y de la palabra ibérica abiner como un antropónimo, y no como una traducción del vocablo latino servus.

La escritura ibérica en la casa iberorromana

El artículo analiza los distintos usos y funciones de la escritura ibérica en el ámbito doméstico, lo que permite desarrollar determinadas consideraciones a propósito del nivel de literacy atribuible a la sociedad ibérica, especialmente en época romana.

Inscripció ibèrica, grafits i marques amfòriques prodecents de la Fogonussa (Sant Martí de Maldà, Riucorb, Urgell)

[cat] Es donen a conèixer diversos objectes singulars localitzats en superfície en els jaciments ibèric i romà de la Fogonussa, que romanien inèdits en la població de Sant Martí de Maldà, municipi de Sant Martí de Riucorb. La selecció està formada per una vora d'àmfora grecoitàlica tardana, que conté una inscripció ibèrica, dues nanses de vasos contenidors ibèrics amb grafits i tres nanses d'àmfora ibèrica estampillades, una d'elles amb la figura d'un griu.

Disclosure of Intangible Assets: an Empirical Study of Financial Corporations in the Iberian Peninsula

The purpose of this paper is to analyse, firstly, to what extent intangible assets in the consolidated accounts of seven Portuguese banks and seven Spanish banks between 2006 and 2009 are disclosed and, secondly, to analyse what the most influential factors are in the above mentioned disclosure. In order to do this, before reviewing the existing literature and on the basis of other studies on this topic, a disclosure index has been created based on the requirements related to the intangible assets as stated in IAS 38. Then, two statistical analyses have been made: a univariate one for each of the explanatory variables and a multivariate one, in which all variables have been analysed. Both analyses led to the conclusion that the disclosure index of intangible assets is 0.96, where the bank dimension and the internationalization degree are the variables that are considered explanatory of the variation of the disclosure index in the regression analysis.

A comparative benchmarking analysis of main Iberian container terminals: a DEA approach

Benchmarking is an important tool to organisations to improve their productivity, product quality, process efficiency or services. From Benchmarking the organisations could compare their performance with competitors and identify their strengths and weaknesses. This study intends to do a benchmarking analysis on the main Iberian Sea ports with a special focus on their container terminals efficiency. To attain this, the DEA (data envelopment analysis) is used since it is considered by several researchers as the most effective method to quantify a set of key performance indicators. In order to reach a more reliable diagnosis tool the DEA is used together with the data mining in comparing the sea ports operational data of container terminals during 2007.Taking into account that sea ports are global logistics networks the performance evaluation is essential to an effective decision making in order to improve their efficiency and, therefore, their competitiveness.

Magma flow, exsolution processes and rock metasomatism in the Great Messejana-Plasencia dyke (Iberian Peninsula)

Magma flow in dykes is still not well understood; some reported magnetic fabrics are contradictory and the potential effects of exsolution and metasomatism processes on the magnetic properties are issues open to debate. Therefore, a long dyke made of segments with different thickness, which record distinct degrees of metasomatism, the Messejana-Plasencia dyke (MPD), was studied. Oriented dolerite samples were collected along several cross-sections and characterized by means of microscopy and magnetic analyses. The results obtained show that the effects of metasomatism on rock mineralogy are important, and that the metasomatic processes can greatly influence anisotropy degree and mean susceptibility only when rocks are strongly affected by metasomatism. Petrography, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and bulk magnetic analyses show a high-temperature oxidation-exsolution event, experienced by the very early Ti-spinels, during the early stages of magma cooling, which was mostly observed in central domains of the thick dyke segments. Exsolution reduced the grain size of the magnetic carrier (multidomain to single domain transformation), thus producing composite fabrics involving inverse fabrics. These are likely responsible for a significant number of the 'abnormal' fabrics, which make the interpretation of magma flow much more complex. By choosing to use only the 'normal' fabric for magma flow determination, we have reduced by 50 per cent the number of relevant sites. In these sites, the imbrication angle of the magnetic foliation relative to dyke wall strongly suggests flow with end-members indicating vertical-dominated flow (seven sites) and horizontal-dominated flow (three sites).

Paleomagnetic study of the Messejana Plasencia dyke (Portugal and Spain): A lower Jurassic paleopole for the Iberian plate

The only Iberian lower Jurassic palcomagnetic pole come from the "Central Atlantic Magmatic Province"-related Messejana Plasencia dyke, but the age and origin of its remanence have been a matter of discussion. With the aim of solving this uncertainty, and to go further into a better understanding of its emplacement and other possible tectonic features, a systematic paleomagnetic investigation of 40 sites (625 specimens) distributed all along the 530 kin of the Messejana Plasencia dyke has been carried out. Rock magnetic experiments indicate PSD low Ti-titanomagnetite and magnetite as the minerals carrying the NRM. The samples were mostly thermally demagnetized. Most sites exhibit a characteristic remanent component of normal polarity with the exception of two sites, where samples with reversed polarities have been observed. The paleomagnetic pole derived from a total of 35 valid sites is representative of the whole structure of the dyke, and statistically well defined, with values of PLa = 70.4 degrees N, PLo = 237.6 degrees E, K= 47.9 and A(95) = 3.5 degrees. Paleomagnetic data indicates that: (i) there is no evidence of a Cretaceous remagnetization in the dyke, as it was suggested; (ii) most of the dyke had a brief emplacement time; furthermore, two dyke intrusion events separated in time from it by at least 10,000 y have been detected; (iii) the high grouping of the VGPs directions suggests no important tectonic perturbations of the whole structure of the dyke since its intrusion time; (iv) the pole derived from this study is a good quality lower Jurassic paleopole for the Iberian plate; and (v) the Messejana Plasencia dyke paleopole for the Iberian plate is also in agreement with quality-selected European and North American lower Jurassic paleopoles and the magnetic anomalies data sets that are available for rotate them to Iberia.

Seismic imaging of the western Iberian crust using ambient noise: Boundaries and internal structure of the Iberian Massif

We present new Rayleigh-wave dispersion maps of the western Iberian Peninsula for periods between 8 and 30 s, obtained from correlations of seismic ambient noise, following the recent increase in seismic broadband network density in Portugal and Spain. Group velocities have been computed for each station pair using the empirical Green's functions generated by cross-correlating one-day-length seismic ambient-noise records. The resulting high-path density allows us to obtain lateral variations of the group velocities as a function of period in cells of 0.5 degrees x 0.5 degrees with an unprecedented resolution. As a result we were able to address some of the unknowns regarding the lithospheric structure beneath SW Iberia. The dispersion maps allow the imaging of the major structural units, namely the Iberian Massif, and the Lusitanian and Algarve Meso-Cenozoic basins. The Cadiz Gulf/Gibraltar Strait area corresponds to a strong low-velocity anomaly, which can be followed to the largest period inverted, although slightly shifted to the east at longer periods. Within the Iberian Massif, second-order perturbations in the group velocities are consistent with the transitions between tectonic units composing the massif. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Integrated analysis of climate, soil, topography and vegetative growth in Iberian viticultural regions

The Iberian viticultural regions are convened according to the Denomination of Origin (DO) and present different climates, soils, topography and management practices. All these elements influence the vegetative growth of different varieties throughout the peninsula, and are tied to grape quality and wine type. In the current study, an integrated analysis of climate, soil, topography and vegetative growth was performed for the Iberian DO regions, using state-of-the-art datasets. For climatic assessment, a categorized index, accounting for phenological/thermal development, water availability and grape ripening conditions was computed. Soil textural classes were established to distinguish soil types. Elevation and aspect (orientation) were also taken into account, as the leading topographic elements. A spectral vegetation index was used to assess grapevine vegetative growth and an integrated analysis of all variables was performed. The results showed that the integrated climate-soil-topography influence on vine performance is evident. Most Iberian vineyards are grown in temperate dry climates with loamy soils, presenting low vegetative growth. Vineyards in temperate humid conditions tend to show higher vegetative growth. Conversely, in cooler/warmer climates, lower vigour vineyards prevail and other factors, such as soil type and precipitation acquire more important roles in driving vigour. Vines in prevailing loamy soils are grown over a wide climatic diversity, suggesting that precipitation is the primary factor influencing vigour. The present assessment of terroir characteristics allows direct comparison among wine regions and may have great value to viticulturists, particularly under a changing climate.