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Cerro de Cabeza del Griego, Saelices

town

Ancient

Segobriga

Ancient
Segobriga
Type
town

Segobriga

Pleiades ID: 266036

settlement

Description

Segobriga was an Ibero-Roman city.

Evidence

  • Str. (Meineke: Perseus) 3.4.13
    Strabo. Strabonis Geographica: recognovit Augustus Meineke. Edited by August Meineke. 3 in 2 vols. Lipsiae, 1877.
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  • Plin., NH (Mayhoff: PHI) 3.25.10
    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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  • CIL II 4252

See Further

  • BAtlas 27 C2 Segobriga
    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 1989 216-19
    Tovar, Antonio. Tarraconensis. Strasbourg: Heitz, 1989.
  • Wikipedia (English) Segorbe
    Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit (2001-), Segorbe.
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  • New Pauly Segobriga
    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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  • PECS (Perseus) SEGOBRIGA Cuenca, 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 Segobriga (Iberia)
    Kiesling, Brady. ToposText – a Reference Tool for Greek Civilization. Version 2.0. Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, 2016-.
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  • Noreña 2019
    Noreña, Carlos F. “Romanization in the Middle of Nowhere: The Case of Segobriga.” Fragments: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Ancient and Medieval Pasts 8 (2019). http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.9772151.0008.001.
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Citation Information

P.O. Spann. "Segobriga" Pleiades, 09 May 2022. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/266036.
Last modified: 2022-05-09T00:52:54Z

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (PECS)

PECS Reference

SEGOBRIGA Cuenca, Spain.

On the Cabeza de Grego hill 4 km S of Saelices, SE of Tarancón. It was the chief town of Celtiberia (Plin. 3.3.25) and a noble and powerful town (Liv. 40.50.1), subdued by T. Sempronius Graccus in 179 B.C. and attacked by Viriatus in 146 B.C. Under Augustus it belonged to Tarraconensis and to the Conventus iuridicus of Carthago Nova, and was the see of a bishop under the Visigoths.

The town had a wall with towers (diameter 400 m). Monuments included the theater, the baths, the curia converted into the St. Bartholomew sanctuary, the aqueduct, several cisterns, a columbarium, a late Roman cemetery, a sacellum dedicated to Diana, with inscriptions, and a Visigoth basilica. Finds in the Cuenca Archaeological Museum include a female togate statue, columns, capitals, friezes, inscriptions, coins, and terra sigillata. The town was abandoned at the time of the Moorish invasion.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

N. Sentenach, “Segobriga,” Memorias de la Junta Superior de Excavaciones 34 (1921); H. Losada & R. Donoso, “Excavaciones en Segobriga,” Excavaciones Arqueológicas en España 43 (1965)MI.

M. PELLICER CATALAN

Location

39.885321, -2.81302