Mértola

city

Ancient

Iulia Myrtilis/Myrtilis

Place Type

city

Ancient Name

Iulia Myrtilis/Myrtilis

Archaeological Type

city

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Pleiades ID: 256234

An ancient settlement at modern Mértola (Portugal) on the west bank of the Guadiana river (ancient Anas). The town is mentioned in Roman sources, but most of the monumental archaeology dates to the Muslim period or later (including a number of large piers previously misidentified as a Roman bridge).

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BAtlas 26 C4 (Iulia) Myrtilis
Talbert, Richard J. A., ed. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43970336.

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Alarcão 1988 II.3, 201-203
Alarcão, Jorge de. Roman Portugal. 2 in 4 vols. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1988. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37821577.

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TIR Emerita 114
Alarcão, Jorge de, Adela Cepas, José Ignacio Reguera Cardiel, Angela Alonso Sánchez, and Union académique internationale, eds. Tabula Imperii Romani. Hoja J-29 : Lisboa : Emerita, Scallabis, Pax Iulia, Gades: sobre la base cartográfica del mapa a escala 1:1000000 del IGN. Tabula Imperii Romani, J-29. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas : Ministerio de Obras Públicas, Transportes y Medio Ambiente, Instituto Geográfico Nacional : Ministerio de Cultura, 1995. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36156421.

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Wikipedia (English) Myrtilis Iulia
Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit (2001-), Myrtilis Iulia.

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PECS (Perseus) MYRTILIS (Mértola) Alentejo, Portugal
Stillwell, Richard, William L MacDonald, and Marian Holland McAllister, eds. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1976. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0006.

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ToposText Iulia Myrtilis (Lusitania)
Kiesling, Brady. ToposText – a Reference Tool for Greek Civilization. Version 2.0. Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, 2016-.

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Contributors

Jr. F.H. Stanley R.C. Knapp Brady Kiesling R. Talbert Johan Åhlfeldt Jeffrey Becker Tom Elliott DARMC R. Warner Sean Gillies

Citation

Jr., F.H. Stanley, and R.C. Knapp. "(Iulia) Myrtilis" Pleiades, 02 December 2022. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/256234.

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Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (PECS)

PECS Reference

MYRTILIS (Mértola) Alentejo, Portugal.

Mentioned by Pliny (HN 4.22), Mela (3.1), Ptolemy (2.5), and referred to in the Antonine Itinerary. Myrtilis was the port of embarcation on the Guadiana for the copper mined in the neighboring mines of S. Domingo. Good examples of sculpture are preserved from the period of Roman domination. Six huge columns on the bank of the river have been thought the remains of a Roman bridge, but they are more likely the remains of an aqueduct of the Muslim period.