Cáparra
Municipium Flavium Caparensis | |
Bien de interés cultural RI-55-0000016 catalogued as an Archaeological Zone and protected since 3 June 1931[1] |
The Roman city of Cáparra[2] is located in the north of Extremadura (Spain) in the valley of the River Alagón. In Roman times it was in the province of Lusitania within the Conventus Iuridicus Emeritensis, whose capital was Colonia Augusta Emerita (modern day Mérida). It was approached via the Roman road known as the Vía de la Plata and is now permanently abandoned. It is said to have been a pre-Roman city, although this remains unconfirmed and has been questioned by some authors, on the grounds that the flat location did not meet the defensive requirements of a pre-Roman town and only a few pottery remains have been found.[3]
The walled city covered an area of approximately 15-16
Its urban organisation corresponds to an orthogonal plan, with the Vía de la Plata as the principal axis, passing through the city in a north-south direction.[5]
The name of the city is not originally
Notes
- ^ Ministry of Culture, Historical Heritage
- ^ Río-Miranda Alcón, J. La ciudad romana de Cáparra - Municipium Flavium Caparense. 2011
- ^ Río-Miranda Alcón, J. La ciudad romana de Cáparra - La cerámica. 2012.
- ^ Rio-Miranda, J. 2011, p,23-60
- ^ In excavations, milestones have been discovered in Cáparra and we know that those in the neighbourhood were repaired under the emperors:
- Tiberius: Rio-Miranda, J. 2011, pp. 121-122; Ahigal, 2000, pp, 4-6; 2005, p.12. Caesar/Divi·f(ilio)·Augustus/CV
- Nero: AE 1967, 198: Imp(erator) Nero Cla[udius D(ivi) Cla/ udi filius)] Caesar [Aug(ustus) Germ(anicus)// po]ntif(ex) max(imus) [---/ ---] tribunicia] potest(ate) V[---/ ---] imp(erator) III p(ater) [p(atriae) -----]/ C X
- Trajan: CIL II 4664: [Imp(erator divi Nervae f(ilius)/ Nerva Tra]ianus [Aug(ustus)/ Germ(anicus) tr]ibun[icia/ potest(ate) ---] co(n)s(ul) [---]/ pont(ifex) max(imus)/ [res]tituit
- Hadrian: CIL II 4663: Imp(erator) Caesar / divi Traiani Par/thici f(ilius) divi Ner/vae nepos Traia/nus Hadrianus / Aug(ustus) pontif(ex) max(imus) / trib(unicia) pot(estate) V co(n)s(ul) / III restituit
- Valerius Maximus: Rio-Miranda, J. 2011, p. 122: Imp Caesar M[--]Va)erio/Maximiano/P(ontif)ex Maximo/C[---]Imperatoris/Fortissimo/Caesaris A(u)g(ustus)/CIII
- Decentius: AE 1946, 16: Dom(ino) n(ostro) / Magno / Decentio / nob(ilissimo) C[aesari/ -------
- ^ Rio-Miranda, J. 2011
Bibliography
- Cerrillo, E. "(2000): “Capara, municipio romano”, Sociedad y cultura en Lusitania romana (Actas de la IV Mesa Redonda Internacional), Mérida, 2000, pp. 155–164.
- Río-Miranda Alcón, J. (2011), La ciudad romana de Cáparra. Municipium Flavium Caparense, Cáceres, pp. 15–340
- Río-Miranda Alcón, J. (2012), La ciudad romana de Cáparra. La Cerámica, Cáceres.