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SEGOBRIGA (Ancient city) CASTILLE-LA MANCHA
Segobriga Cuenca, Spain.
On the Cabeza de Grego hill 4 km S of Saelices, SE of Tarancon. 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.
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