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Marbella Malaga, Spain.
On the Mediterranean coasts SW of Malaga. Not mentioned in literary sources. Some
6.4 km W of the town are the remains of a Roman villa. Among its mosaics is one
with representations of culinary themes: a simpulum (small ladle), a batillum
(chafing dish), a tripod, oinochoai, a hearth; also spits, onions, rabbits, game,
and fish. The mosaic dates from the first half of the 2d c. (J. Arce, ed.)
Caesar Aaugusta or Salduba (Zaragoza) Spain.
A Roman tribute-exempt colony on the right bank of the Ebro, where the oppidum
of Salduie (Salluie, Salduba of Pliny) formerly stood, in Sedetania (Plin. HN
3.24) and not in Edetania, a mistake arising from a misreading of the Leyden Codex.
It was founded by veterans of legiones IV Macedonica, VI Victrix, and X Gemina,
discharged after the wars against the Cantabri, ca. 24 B.C., as is shown by the
coins. It was the chief town of an extensive Conventus luridicus and was of great
importance during the time of Pomponius Mela, who stated (3.88) that the most
important towns of the interior were Palantia and Numantia in Tarraconensis and,
in its time, Caesaraugusta; Strabo (3.4.10, 13) adds that it was on the banks
of the Ebro, about 800 stadia from Numantia. Ptolemy calls it Kaisareia Augusta.
The colony was founded as a bridgehead and remains of the stone bridge
are preserved in the mediaeval and modern one. The town stood at the intersection
of the roads of the Ebro (Hiberus), Gallego (Gallicus, through which passed the
C. Benearnum road), Huerva (Orbia), and Salo (Jalon), 20 km away. It was also
a river port, as is confirmed by finds of amphorae near the confluence of the
Huerva and the Ebro. Its foundation date is controversial: 25, 19, or 15 B.C.
The oppidum has also been located at Zaragoza la Vieja (El Burgo, 10 km away)
and at Juslibol, on the left bank of the Ebro, but these claims are not soundly
based.
The town minted Iberian bronze coins, patterned on Roman coins, and
gave its name to a cavalry unit which served under Cn. Pompeius Strabo, son of
Sextus and father of the triumvir. Members of the unit were granted Roman citizenship
in 89 B.C. during the siege of Ascoli. Their names and the award are preserved
on a copper tablet; four of them were from the town.
The plan of the Roman town is preserved in the ancient part of Zaragoza:
the entire perimeter or cursum in the Coso, the decumanus maximus in the Calles
de Manifestacion, Mendez Nunez, and Mayor; the Calle Don Jaime I approximates
the cardo maximus, the forum was at the intersection of the two, and remains of
the cloaca maxima are in the N part of the cardo. The rectangular plan had four
gateways, preserved until the 19th c., the gates of Toledo and Valencia at the
ends of the decumanus, that of El Angel straddling the bridge, and the supposed
Cineraria, on the Coso. The wall, still visible in a few curtains flanked by fortified
towers, must be a 3d c. reconstruction necessitated by the barbarian invasions;
the perimeter of the town was reduced, and many shafts and bases of columns were
probably reused in this wall.
There are no other remains in site; but a number of monuments appear
on coins: a statue of Augustus between Gaius and Lucius (4 B.C.), perhaps Livia
seated (A.D. 15-16), and a fine hexastyle temple dedicated to the cult of Augustus
(28-29), an equestrian statue of Tiberius (31), and another tetrastyle temple
dedicated to the cult of Augustus (33). A number of shafts and Corinthian capitals
are housed in the museum.
The mosaics of the Plaza de Santa Engracia and the Plaza del Pilar
date from the 2d c. and include the triumph of Bacchus and that of Orpheus; there
are also statues, one of a man from the Plaza de la Seo, a group of hetairas making
music, a drunken faun from a suburban villa, and architectural fragments from
the place called Piedras de Coso, almost certainly the site of ancient temples.
Inscriptions are rare and of little importance.
Hispano-Roman coins are not continuous with the Iberian coins from
Salduie and are the most abundant series in the Peninsula; still unknown are the
coins struck when the colony was founded, ca. 24 B.C., on which must have appeared
the legate responsible for the deductio and the duoviri quinquennales who conducted
the census. Coins of the first series bear the head of Augustus, first bare and
later with a laurel wreath, before and after 27 June, 23 B.C., the yoke of oxen
led by a priest (on the asses), and a standard, a type also alluding to the foundation
(on the semisses). They all bear the names of the duoviri and range from the dupondius
to the sextans. The issues continued in the time of Tiberius and Caius Caesar,
but other types were added, bearing the standards of the legions with the numbers
of the founder legions, the bull, the abbreviated name of the town, CCA, and the
statues and temples already mentioned.
Finds are in the Zaragoza Museum, the National Archaeological Museum
in Madrid, and a few private collections.
A. Beltran, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Jan 2006 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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