Abstract
In this work we study the history of metals production at the mining district of the Iberian Pyrite Belt, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. This district contains more than 85 mines that reached industrial levels of silver and copper in roman imperial era. In one of its most important mines, the Vipasca mine (Aljustrel, Portugal), two bronze plaques were discovered. They regulate work and life in the mine in the second half of the first century and the first half of the second century AD. Throughout this work will outline the production in this district from the mines of Riotinto, Tharsis and Aljustrel, and will study the evolution of their management by the emperor’s state until it chystallized in the model shown by the bronzes of Aljustrel in Hadrian’s time.
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