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Flaviobriga

Pleiades ID: 246394

settlement

Description

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 25 B2 Flaviobriga

Evidence

Plin., NH (Mayhoff: PHI) 4.110.9
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 B2 Flaviobriga
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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TIR Caesaraugusta 116-17
Fatás Cabeza, Guillermo, Adela Cepas, José Ignacio Reguera Cardiel, and José Manuel Abascal Palazón. Tabula Imperii Romani : K30 Madrid : Caesaraugusta - Clunia : escala 1:1.000.000 : base geográfica, Instituto Geográfico Nacional. Tabula Imperii Romani, K30. Madrid. Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura; Union académique internationale; Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain), 1993. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31397775.

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PECS (Perseus) CASTRO URDIALES (“Flaviobriga”) Santander, 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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Names

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Creators & Contributors

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

Citation Information

H.S. Sivan, S.J. Keay, and R.W. Mathisen. "Flaviobriga" Pleiades, 26 November 2024. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/246394.

Last modified: 2024-11-26T01:08:55Z

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (PECS)

PECS Reference

CASTRO URDIALES (“Flaviobriga”) Santander, Spain.

Its location is not sure. Ptolemy (2.6.8) and Pliny describe it as the first city beyond the E limit of the Cantabrian mountains, and Pliny (4.110) identifies it with Portus Amanum and describes it as a colony. It was the only colony on the Cantabrian coast and the last founded in the peninsula. Among the sites proposed (Bermeo, Portugalete, Bilbao) the most probable is Castro Urdiales. The name indicates that it was founded by the Flavii, perhaps between A.D. 69 and 77, and probably by a deductio of veterans in Portus Amanum, to guard the recently conquered zone of N Hispania and its mineral deposits.

Coins of the 1st-2d c. have been found, and a bronze statue of Neptune (?), known as the Cantabrian Neptune, clean shaven, with a trident (?) in his right hand, a dolphin in his left, and a gold collar in the shape of a half-moon. The patera of Otañes, possibly of the Flavian period, was also found in the vicinity.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A. García y Bellido, Esculturas romanas de Espana y Portugal (1949) no. 493, pl. 345^I; id., “Las colonias romanas de Hispania,” Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español 29 (1959)^M; J. González Echegaray, “El Neptuno cántabro de Castro Urdiales,” ArchEspArq 30 (1957) 253ff^I.

R. TEJA

Castro Urdiales

Ancient