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Cástulo, Linares

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Ancient

Castulo/Caesarii Iuvenales

Ancient
Castulo/Caesarii Iuvenales
Type
city

Castulo

Pleiades ID: 265855

settlement archaeological-site

Description

An Ibero-Roman settlement of Baetica that was inhabited beginning in the Neolithic period. It is noted for the silver mines of the Sierra Morena.

Evidence

  • Liv. (OCT: PHI) 24.41.7.1
    Titus Livius. Titi Livi Ab Urbe Condita. 5 vols. Clarendon: Oxford U.P, 1908. https://latin.packhum.org/loc/914/1/0#0.
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  • Liv. (OCT: PHI) 28.19.2.1, 28.19.4.3
    Titus Livius. Titi Livi Ab Urbe Condita. 5 vols. Clarendon: Oxford U.P, 1908. https://latin.packhum.org/loc/914/1/0#0.
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  • Ptol. 2.6.59
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  • Cic. Ep. ad Fam. 10.3.1
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  • CIL 02, 03270
    Corpus inscriptionum latinarum. Berolini: Apud G. Reimerum, 1862.
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  • EDH HD010820: Inscription from Castulo, bei – Linares (Hispania citerior) = AE 1973, 0281
    Alföldy, Géza, and Christian Witschel, eds. Epigraphic Database Heidelberg. Heidelberg: Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1997. http://edh-www.adw.uni-heidelberg.de/.
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See Further

  • BAtlas 27 B3 Castulo
    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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  • Wiegels 1985 106
    Wiegels, Rainer. Die Tribusinschriften Des Römischen Hispanien: Ein Katalog. Madrider Forschungen 13. Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1985.
  • Tovar 1989, 173-77
  • Conjunto arqueológico del Cástulo
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  • PECS (Perseus) CÁSTULO (Cazlona) Jaén, 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) Castulo
    Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit (2001-), Castulo.
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  • Smith 1854 (Perseus) CÁSTULO
    Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: Murray, 1854. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0064.
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  • New Pauly Castulo
    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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  • Keay 1988 64
    Keay, S. J. Roman Spain. London: British Museum Publications, 1988. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17300435.
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  • ToposText Castulo/Caesarii Iuvenales (Iberia)
    Kiesling, Brady. ToposText – a Reference Tool for Greek Civilization. Version 2.0. Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, 2016-.
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  • OCD Online Castulol (Simon J. Keay)
    Whitmarsh, Tim, ed. Oxford Classical Dictionary (Online). Post-4th digital. Post-4th Continuously Updated. Accessed March 12, 2023. https://oxfordre.com/classics/classics/.
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Names

la la grc

Citation Information

P.O. Spann. "Castulo" Pleiades, 28 November 2024. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/265855.
Last modified: 2024-11-28T17:55:11Z

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (PECS)

PECS Reference

CÁSTULO (Cazlona) Jaén, Spain.

An Ibero-Roman city of Baetica in the environs of Linares, inhabited from the end of the Neolithic Age on and famous for the nearby silver mines of Sierra Morena. It has produced fragments of Greek black-figure vases from the end of the 6th c. B.C., red-figure vases from the first half of the 4th c. B.C., and some kraters of the same date from Italy. It was the largest city in Oretania (Strab. 3.156) and closely tied to the Carthaginian party (Livy 24.41). Nearby was the Baebelo mine, which paid Hannibal 300 pounds of silver per day (Plin. 33.96).

Castulo played a large part in the beginning of the Roman conquest (App. Iberia 16; Livy 26.19). The inscriptions on its coins were in native alphabets. It has contributed a few good Roman portraits, one in a toga of the Flavian period, many Hispanic sigillata and Roman gems, architectural fragments, Roman glass, and animalistic sculpture such as Iberian and Roman lions, all now in the Archeological Museum of Linares. Stelai with human figures in relief are in the Archaeological Museum of Madrid. Many inscriptions have been found there, one of them a fragment of an olive oil law of Hadrian. Iberian, Roman, and Visigothic necropoleis are well documented. Castulo was surrounded by walls and had several temples, a theater, and a circus.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A. D'Ors & R. Contreras, “Nuevas inscripciones romanas en Cástulo,” ArchEspArq 29 (1956) 118-27I; J. M. Blázquez, “Cástulo en las fuentes histórico-literarias anteriores al Imperio,” Oretania 21 (1965) 123-28; G. Trías, “Estudio de las cerámicas áticas decoradas de la necrópolis del Molino de Caldona (Cástulo),” ibid. 10-11 (1969) 222-33I.

J. M. BLÁZQUEZ

Location

38.035833, -3.623611