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Barcelona

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Ancient

Col. Barcino

Ancient
Col. Barcino
Type
city

Col. Barcino

Pleiades ID: 246343

settlement amphitheatre

Description

Colonia Iulia Augusta Paterna Faventia Barcino (Barcelona) was a Roman settlement in Tarraconensis founded by Augustus.

Evidence

  • Mela (Ranstrand: PHI) 2.90.2, 2.90.3
    Mela, Pomponius. De chorographia libri tres. Edited by Gunnar Ranstrand. Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia 28. Göteborg; Stockholm: Published by the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of Göteborg] ; Almqvist & Wiksell [distributor], 1971. http://latin.packhum.org/loc/929/1/0.
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  • Plin., NH (Mayhoff: PHI) 3.22.4
    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 25 H4 Col. Barcino
    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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  • Sobrequés 1994 1 La Ciutat antiga
    J Sobrequés I Callicó, ed. Història de Barcelona 1 La Ciutat Antiga. 2 ed. Barcelona, 1994.
  • TIR Tarraco 44-49
    Cepas, Adela, Joseph Guitart i Duran, and Guillermo Fatás Cabeza. Tabula Imperii Romani: K/J-31 Pyrénées Orientales/Baleares: Tarraco - Baliares. Tabula Imperii Romani, K/J-31. Pyreneés Orientales-Baleares. Madrid: Ministerio de Fomento: Ministerio de Educación y Cultura CSIC : Institut D’Estudis Catalans, 1997. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40415507.
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  • IRC IV
  • New Pauly Barcino(na)
    Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider, Manfred Landfester, Christine F. Salazar, and Francis G. Gentry, eds. Brill’s New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Brill, 2015. https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/db/npoe.
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  • PECS (Perseus) BARCINO (Barcelona) Barcelona, 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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  • Wikipedia (English) Barcelona
    Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit (2001-), Barcelona.
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  • RE Barcino
    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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  • Wikipedia (English) Barcelona Roman amphitheatre and circus
    Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia That Anyone Can Edit. Wikimedia Foundation, 2001. https://en.wikipedia.org.
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  • Bianco 2023
    Bianco, Sabrina, Santiago Riera Mora, Oriol López-Bultó, Carme Miró Alaix, Ethel Allué, and Llorenç Picornell-Gelabert. “Multi-Site Archaeobotanical Analysis Reveals Wood-Fuel Supply, Woodland Impact and Land Use around Roman Urban Centres: The Case of Barcino (Barcelona, NE Iberia).” Journal of Archaeological Science 156 (August 1, 2023): 105817. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2023.105817.
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See Also

  • RFO 6534
    Åhlfeldt, Johan. Regnum Francorum Online, 2009. http://francia.ahlfeldt.se/.
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Names

akk es

Creators & Contributors

H.S. Sivan S.J. Keay R.W. Mathisen DARMC R. Talbert Sean Gillies Johan Åhlfeldt Jeffrey Becker Tom Elliott

Citation Information

H.S. Sivan, S.J. Keay, and R.W. Mathisen. "Col. Barcino" Pleiades, 13 October 2024. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/246343.
Last modified: 2024-10-13T16:30:38Z

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (PECS)

PECS Reference

BARCINO (Barcelona) Barcelona, Spain.

Town in Tarraconensis whose name, known from many inscriptions, was Colonia Iulia Augusta Paterna Faventia Barcino, indicating that it was founded by Augustus. Barcino appears to be the native name of an oppidum of the Laietani who minted silver drachmae at the end of the 3d c. B.C., imitating those of Emporion and bearing the iberian legend BARKENOS. An allusion by Ausonius (Ep. 37.68) is the basis for the claim that it was founded by the Carthaginians (the family of the Barcidae). This is unacceptable, however; the name appears in Avienus (OM. 5.520) in its pure Iberian form, Barcilo.

The Augustan colony spread over a small height, Mons Tabar (18 m above sea level), between two mountain streams, the San Juan to the N and La Rambla to the S. its fields probably extended from the Baetulo river (Besós) to the Rubricatus (Llobregat). During the Late Empire it had large monuments, temples, baths, and two aqueducts, but it was burned and razed in A.D. 265 during the invasion of the Franks and the Alamanni. it was subsequently rebuilt and its perimeter reduced. The colony had been surrounded by a strong defensive wall with over 60 circular or polygonal towers which were mostly incorporated later into mediaeval structures. The extraordinary fortification of Barcino and the excellence of its port increased its importance during the Early Empire. At the beginning of the 5th c. A.D. it was occupied by the Visigoths as allies of the Romans, and King Ataulfo was assassinated there in 414. it had an active Christian community, including St. Paciano, and there are remains of a 6th c. basilica.

The Roman wall has been restored and the subsoil excavated, uncovering a large amount of reused architectural material, statues, funerary and honorific stones, and mosaics, from the destruction of the town in the 3d c. it is now possible to visit more than 200 m of the Roman town under the Gothic cathedral and the public buildings dating from the Middle Ages. The finds are in the museum on the site and the Barcelona Archaeological Museum.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

J. Puig i Cadafalch, L'Arquitectura romana a Catalunya (1934); L. Pericot et al., Historia de Barcelona (1943); A. Balil, Las murallas romanas de Barcelona (1961); id., Colonia Iulia Augusta Paterna Barcino (1964); F. Pallares, “Las excavaciones de la Plaza de San Miguel y la topografia romana de Barcino,” Cuadernos de Historia de la Ciudad 13 (1969) 5ff.

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Location

41.384106, 2.175422