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Fábrica de Preparado de Peixe de Setúbal

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Tanques de salga de peixe do período da ocupação romana, descobertos em 1979. À semelhança do que sucedia noutros pontos da área atualmente ocupada pela Baixa setubalense (e, igualmente, em Troia), destinavam-se à manipulação de diversos preparados de peixe, avultando entre estes o garum (pasta de peixe salgada), que na época constituía valioso… More ...
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Fábrica Romana de Salga

Pleiades ID: 53168773

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This Roman fish-salting workshop located in Setúbal dates to the first century CE. It was discovered in 1979.

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  • Wikipedia (Spanish) Fábrica romana de salado de Setúbal
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Creators & Contributors

Jeffrey Becker

Citation Information

Jeffrey Becker. "Fábrica Romana de Salga" Pleiades, 14 June 2022. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/53168773.
Last modified: 2022-06-14T20:25:09Z

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (PECS)

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TROIA (“Caetobriga”) Alentejo, Portugal.

The site of a large Roman town on the Troia peninsula on the left bank of the Sado river. It was settled at least by the 1st c. A.D. Ptolemy (2.5) mentions a city of Caetobrix S of Tejo, and the Antonine Itinerary cites a Catobriga in the same region. Some house facades, well aligned, were visible on the surface during the 19th c. in a region of Troia known as Rua da Princesa. At least two of these houses had two stories, and there were mosaics on the floors of the upper rooms facing on the main road. In one of the houses was found a hoard of bronze coins of the late Empire. A bath was also excavated; tanks for preparing garum were found along the river; and at the end of the 19th c. an Early Christian church was discovered and a round structure, perhaps a baptistery. One of the cemeteries of the city, Aldeira, contained over a hundred graves with rich grave goods.

The finds are in the National Museum of Archaeology in Lisbon.

There is some speculation that the site of Caetobriga lies in Setúbal, 32 km SE of Lisbon. The name seems to derive from Caetobriga. In the area occupied by the modern city the S. Sebastião hill could correspond to ancient Caetobriga. The Roman finds in Setúbal, although numerous, do not prove, however, that there was anything more than a small village there, like the many others that existed on the right bank of the mouth of the Sado.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Marques da Costa, “Estudos sobre algumas estacões da época luso-romana nos arredores de Setúbal,” O Archeólogo Português 29 (1930-31) 2-31I; F. Castelo-Branco, “Aspectos e problemas arqueológicos de Troia de Setúbal,” Occidente 65 (1963) 21f; F. de Almeida & J. L. Matos, “Frescos da ‘capela visigótica’ de Troia, Setúbal,” Actas do II Congresso Nacional de Arqueológia, Coimbra (1971) 529-33I.

J. ALARCÃO

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Monument ID
Name
Fábrica de Preparado de Peixe de Setúbal
Description
A Fábrica Romana de Salga situa-se na Travessa de Frei Gaspar, no centro da cidade de Setúbal, no subsolo de um edifício onde se encontravam instalados serviços da Região de Turismo da Costa Azul.[1] Esta unidade industrial romana, composta por catorze cetárias, foi descoberta em 1979, quando de obras efectuadas nesse mesmo local. Esta unidade dedicava-se à salga de peixe e pequenos crustáceos, com os quais se preparavam vários alimentos e condimentos, destacando-se o garo. Corresponde a um período de ocupação que vai do século I ao V/VI. A fábrica foi posteriormente abandonada, devido à decadência dos mercados romanos.
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Compilation Date
2025-05-08
Last Update
2025-05-08

Monument Types

food processing plants (fábricas de salga) AAT: 300006335

Historical Locations

  • Caetobriga
    Certainty: segura Period: Época Romana

Current Location

  • São Sebastião, Setúbal, Setúbal, Portugal

Time Periods

  • séc. I - séc. VI
    Period: Época Romana Method: Contexto arqueológico

Geographic Information

  • Coordinates: 38.523481, -8.890321
    Accuracy: confiável
    Feature Type: Point
    CRS: ETRS89 / Portugal TM06

Location

38.523481, -8.890321