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Anticaria

Pleiades ID: 265799

settlement

Description

An ancient Roman town mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary and by the Ravenna Cosmographer. Modern Antequera in Spain.

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BAtlas 27 A4 Anticaria
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 134-35
Tovar, Antonio. Baetica. Baden-Baden: Koerner, 1974.
PECS (Perseus) ANTICARIA (Antequera) Málaga, Spain
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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RE Anticaria
Pauly, August Friedrich von, Georg Wissowa, Wilhelm Kroll, Kurt Witte, Karl Mittelhaus, and Konrat Ziegler, eds. Real-Encyclopaedie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft. 83 vols. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 1894.

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Creators & Contributors

P.O. Spann DARMC R. Talbert R. Warner Jeffrey Becker Sean Gillies Tom Elliott

Citation Information

P.O. Spann. "Anticaria" Pleiades, 16 June 2021. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/265799.

Last modified: 2021-06-16T14:58:18Z

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (PECS)

PECS Reference

ANTICARIA (Antequera) Málaga, Spain.

Town 62 km N of Málaga, built over a megalithic cultural center. The Roman town is documented in the Antonine Itinerary, 412.2, and by the Ravenna Cosmographer, 316.1 and 18. The nucleus of Roman Anticaria was probably under the mediaeval castle.

A building E of the present city, beyond the megalithic caves, has a wall of blind arches 54 m long, 2.8 m high, and ca. 1.5 m thick, closely connected to a rectangular enclosure of the same length and 8 m wide by 2.8 m deep. This was probably a villa rather than a bath because of its distance from the urban center; mosaic fragments have been found. Sculptural and epigraphic material and metal work found in the area is in the municipal museum, notably a portrait of Drusus Maior and two busts, of a man and a woman, of the Antonine period.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

S. Giménez Reyna & A. García y Bellido, “Antigüedades romanas de Antequera,” ArchEspArq 21 (1948) 48-66^MPI; A. de Luque, “Arqueología antequerana,” XI Congreso Nacional de Ainqueclogía, Mérida, 1968 (1970) 557-67^MI.

L. G. IGLESIAS

Nearby Points of Interest

Antequera

Ancient