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Ebora (Evora) Alentejo, Portugal.
Mentioned by Ptolemy (2.5), Mela (3.1), Pliny (HN 4.22), and in the Antonine Itinerary.
It was also called Liberalitas Iulia, a name received from Julius Caesar or Octavian
before 27 B.C. The name Ebora is Celtic, but nothing is known of the prehistoric
town. According to one tradition Sertorius established his base of operations
in the peninsula here. From Caesar or Octavian it received the Latium vetus and
from Vespasian the status of municipium.
In the center of the town and on one of its two highest points stands
one of the best-preserved temples in the peninsula, the so-called Temple of Diana.
It is peripteral and hexastyle, and a temple of the imperial cult. The foundations
of opus incertum measure 25 by 15 m and are 3.5 m high. On the N side are preserved
six original granite columns 7.68 m high, with capitals of local marble. The colonnades
of the W and E sides are incomplete, and the facade has disappeared completely.
Some stones with bucrania and paterae, in the museum of the city, perhaps belong
to the frieze.
At Praca do Giraldo there appears to have been a triumphal arch (perhaps
the only one in Portuguese Lusitania), demolished in 1570. The circuit of the
fortifications, erected at the end of the 3d c. A.D., can be entirely reconstructed.
Many sections are still visible, especially on the Largo das Portas de Moura,
the Largo dos Colegiais, and the streets of Menino Jesus and of Alcarcova. This
Roman city had the largest number of families of Roman origin: Julia, Calpurnia,
Canidia, and Catinia. The Julian family at the beginning of the 3d c. had a rich
villa ca. 15 km from the city in a place now called Nossa Senhora da Tourega.
J. Alarcao, 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 18 image(s), bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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