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Carmona

town

Ancient

Carmo

Ancient
Carmo
Type
town

Carmo

Pleiades ID: 256058

settlement

Description

Carmo was a town in Hispania Ulterior.

Evidence

  • CIL II 1378ff.; 5120
    Corpus inscriptionum latinarum. Berolini: Apud G. Reimerum, 1862.
  • Liv. (OCT: PHI) 33.21.8.2
    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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  • Caes. Bell. Civ. 2.19.4
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  • Str. (Meineke: Perseus) 3.2.2
    Strabo. Strabonis Geographica: recognovit Augustus Meineke. Edited by August Meineke. 3 in 2 vols. Lipsiae, 1877.
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See Further

  • BAtlas 26 E4 Carmo
    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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  • Escacena Carrasco 1985 283, 285
    Escacena Carrasco, J.L. “El poblamiento ibérico en el bajo Guadalquivir.” In Los Iberos. Actas de las I jornadas sobre el mundo ibérico, edited by A. Ruiz and M. Molinos, 273–97. Jaén, 1985.
  • New Pauly Carmo (P. Barceló)
    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.brillonline.com/browse/brill-s-new-pauly.
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  • Wikipedia (English) Carmona, Spain
    Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia That Anyone Can Edit. Wikimedia Foundation, 2001. https://en.wikipedia.org.
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  • EncIs Carmona
    Brill Academic Publishers. The Encyclopaedia of Islam. Leiden; New York, 2006. https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/db/eieo.
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  • Wikipedia (English) History of Carmona, Spain
    Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia That Anyone Can Edit. Wikimedia Foundation, 2001. https://en.wikipedia.org.
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  • Livius.org Carmo (Carmona)
    Lendering, Jona. Livius - Articles on Ancient History, 1995. http://www.livius.org/.
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  • PECS (Perseus) CARMO (Carmona) Sevilla, 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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  • ToposText Carmo (Iberia)
    Kiesling, Brady. ToposText – a Reference Tool for Greek Civilization. Version 2.0. Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, 2016. https://topostext.org/.
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Names

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Citation Information

Jr., F.H. Stanley, and R.C. Knapp. "Carmo" Pleiades, 08 May 2025. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/256058.
Last modified: 2025-05-08T21:19:22Z

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (PECS)

PECS Reference

CARMO (Carmona) Sevilla, Spain.

Town in Hispania Ulterior 33 km E of Seville. It belonged to the territory of the Turduli and appears to have been a municipium, appearing in Agrippa's account as oppidum civium romanorum or latinorum. Variants of the name Carmo appear (Caes. BCiv. 2.19.4; Strab. 3.141; Ptol. 2.4.10; App. Hisp. 58; Bello Alexandr. 57.2; 64.1; Ant. It. 414.2; Ravenna Cosmographer 315.5).

Carmo began to mint coins before 133 B.C., the obverse of the ass bearing the head of Mercury and of Mars or Roma, and the reverse, the name of the mint between two ears of corn; on later issues, smaller in size, the reverse type is the same but the obverse bears the head of Herakles. Surprisingly, while Caesar called it one of the most important towns in Baetica, it is not mentioned by Mela and Pliny. Its early remains are buried in the area extending from the present Ayuntamiento to the Plaza de Abastos, where there is a large dolmen. Some graves from the Carthaginian period (ca. 5th c. with rich grave goods, have been discovered. The name of a certain Urbanibal, of Carthaginian descent, who lived during the Roman period, is preserved on a funeral urn discovered in the Roman cemetery and today in the Carmona museum.

Remains of the Roman period include part of the wall (the gates of Seville and Cordoba were modified in the Arab and mediaeval periods), a large temple, the Roman cemetery containing underground tombs such as those of Servilia, Prepusa, Postumius, and the Elephant, and the amphitheater, which is partly cut out of the rock and dates from the last quarter of the 1st c. B.C. Portraits, sculptures, and inscriptions have also been found in the town and in the necropolis.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

J. Bonsor, Memorias de la Sociedad Arqueológica de Carmona (n.d.); J. D. de la Rada, Necropolis de Carmona (1885); E. Bonsor, An Archaeological Sketch-Book of the Roman Necropolis at Carmona (1931); J. Hernández Diaz et al., Catálogo arqueológico y artístico de la provincia de Sevilla (1943); C. Fernández Chicarro, Excavaciones del anfiteatro de Carmona (in preparation).

C. FERNANDEZ-CHICARRO

Nearby Points of Interest

Cinco Puentes, Carmona

1018m away

Hacienda del Real Tesoro

1770m away

Location

37.47267, -5.63322