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ncomplete and fragmented ceramic vessel recovered from São Geraldo (inventory number: 16.815, National Archaeology Museum).
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... (Vasconcelos 1906: 325-326), only later he would come to mention specifically, the discovery of a buckle and two ceramic vessels in this site classified as Visigothic (Vasconcelos 1915: 193). However, in the reserves of the National Archaeological Museum, in Lisbon, only a single artefact was identified: a jug, fragmented and incomplete (Fig. 5). As for the buckle and the second vessel, they could not be located. Despite being mentioned in the input records of the Museum and by some authors that wrote in the mid-twentieth century, like Abel Viana (Viana 1953: 184), all trace of them were eventually lost. But problems do not end here. As a matter of fact, nothing more is known ...
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Lusitania, the Roman province reorganized in the time of Augustus, covered a wide area of territory in the Iberian Peninsula. Despite the collapse of the political and administra- tive structures of the Roman Empire in the second half of the fifth century A.D., Lusitania maintai- ned a set of characteristics that continued to enable its identification as heiress of romanitas. On the other hand, it became dominated by other powers, by new elites and their affirmation strategies: and in fact, in the sixth century, it was already integrated in the visigothic kingdom formed in the meantime. In the background, Christianity: not univocal, but composed of several voices and, con- sequently, materialized in different ways.
Funeral archaeology focused on these centuries reveals a multitude of options that challenge interpretation. Burial contexts where the deceased appear stripped of materials “coexist” with depositions associated with multiple types of artefacts. And if some of them are destined for the adornment of the bodies, what supposedly recalls pagan traditions others are imbued with a dis- tinctive Christological dimension. Through the observation of different of Lusitania ́s different funerary spaces with tombs attributed to the v-vI centuries, we propose to analyse the metallic materials channelled towards the tombs and to question the meaning inherent to their presence, underlining the contradictions or symbiosis they illustrate.
