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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites

Basti

BAZA (Town) GRANADA
Basti (Baza) Granada, Spain.
Town ca. 50 km NE of Guadix, mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary (401.8), on several occasions by Strabo, and in Livy (37.46.7) in connection with a Roman defeat by the Bastetani. it was an episcopal see during the Early Christian and Visigoth periods. The iberian cemetery has yielded a large number of Greek vases, indicating that it was used during the 5th and 3d c. B.C. Recent finds inchide the so-called Lady of Baza, a seated Iberian figure still bearing traces of polychrome and dating from the 4th c. B.C.

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