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Medina-Sidonia

city

Ancient

Asido

Ancient
Asido
Type
city

Asido

Pleiades ID: 255994

settlement

Description

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 26 E5 Asido

Evidence

  • Plin., NH (Mayhoff: PHI) 3.11.8
    Plinius Secundus Maior, C. Naturalis Historiae. Edited by Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff. Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana. Lipsiae: Teubner, 1906. http://latin.packhum.org/loc/978/1/0.
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See Further

  • BAtlas 26 E5 Asido
    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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  • Tovar 1974 150-51
    Tovar, Antonio. Baetica. Baden-Baden: Koerner, 1974.
  • Wikipedia (English) Medina-Sidonia
    Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit (2001-), Medina-Sidonia.
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  • PECS (Perseus), ASIDO (Medina Sidonia) Cádiz, Spain
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Names

Citation Information

Jr., F.H. Stanley, and R.C. Knapp. "Asido" Pleiades, 27 September 2020. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/255994.
Last modified: 2020-09-27T04:02:09Z

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (PECS)

PECS Reference

ASIDO (Medina Sidonia) Cádiz, Spain.

A Roman colony near the S coast of Baetica and belonging to the juridical area of Hispalis (Seville) (Plin. 3.11). It is SE of Cádiz. The name appears to be of Punic origin, as shown by its bilingual coins. The mint employed the Libyo-Phoenician alphabet, and the leading motifs were the bull, the dolphin, and the full-front head of Hercules. Later it coined asses and semisses bearing ears of grain and fish. Variants of the name appear in Ptolemy (2.4.10) and in the Ravenna Cosmographer (317.9).

Remains include portraits, busts, togate figures, statues of divinities, sarcophagi, inscriptions, columns, cameos, rings, and coins. Among these finds are the epigram, now in the archaeological museum of Seville, dedicated to the quattuorvir Quintus Fabius Senica by the Municipes Caesarini (perhaps a relative of the Fabia Prisca of Asido, who occurs in a Cordova inscription), and the portraits of Livia and Tiberius now in the archaeological museum of Cádiz. The Roman town must lie under the modern one, as remains of buildings have been recorded in the area of the present convents of S. Francisco and S. Cristobal, and the Calle Althaona Vieja. No Phoenician or Punic remains have been found, but there has been no deep excavation.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

E. Romero de Torres, Catálogo Monumental de España: Provincia de Cádiz (1934) 174, 210; A. García y Bellido, “Las colonias romanas de Hispania,” Anuario de Historia del Derecho español 29 (1959) 476ff; Mélanges André Piganiol (1966) III, 481ff.

C. FERNANDEZ-CHICARRO

Location

36.45611, -5.92473