Augustobriga (Tagus)

Augustobriga - portico

Augustobriga - truncated columns

Latin inscription ( CIL II, 5346 ) with the name of the city Augustobriga, kept in the Museo de Cáceres

Augustobriga is a Roman city at a narrow point of the River Tajo (formerly Tagus ) in the municipality of Bohonal de Ibor in what is now the province of Cáceres in the western Spanish region of Estremadura . The place name changed to Talavera la Vieja in the Middle Ages ; the current location is also known as Los Marmoles .

location

Augustobriga was located in the east of the Roman province of Lusitania on the road from Emerita Augusta ( Mérida ) via Caesarobriga ( Talavera de la Reina ) and Toletum ( Toledo ) to Caesaraugusta ( Saragossa ) at a height of approx. 300 m above sea level . d. M. However, the river was dammed in the 1960s by the Valdecañas dam, so that the actual ruins of the city are now under water; only the portico of a temple or another public building (possibly a curia ) and three truncated columns have been moved to a higher level.

history

Augustobriga was an Augustan foundation in a place that the Celtic Vettons had already settled. The place name is only mentioned in a few ancient passages - the most important of them is in the Antonini Itinerarium from the 3rd century. Another mention can be found about 200 years earlier in Pliny the Elder ( Naturalis historia IV, 118). The name is also mentioned on a fragment of a stele found here .

architecture

Most of the rescued and all fluted column drums come from a portico with architrave and seated round arch , which still stood upright in the 19th century and was drawn by Alexandre de Laborde around 1827 . Three other truncated columns are in the immediate vicinity.

Others

Archaeological research differentiates between Augustobriga 1 (= Talavera la Vieja ) and Augustobriga 2 (= Muro de Ágreda near Soria ).

Web links

Commons : Augustobriga  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Augustobriga - Photos + Info (Arteguias, Spanish)
• Augustobriga - photos + short information (spanish)
• Augustobriga - new and old photos + maps
• Augustobriga - Location in the Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire + links

literature

• Emil Hübner : Augustobriga 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, col. 2367.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ruins of Augustobriga - map with height information

Coordinates: 39 ° 48 ′ 25 "  N , 5 ° 28 ′ 56.5"  W.