BOBADELA
Beira Litoral, Portugal.
Near
Oliveira do Hospital. Neither the geographers of antiquity nor the
Antonine Itinerary mentions this village, but
three stone inscriptions which record three flamines attest its importance. An arch is preserved which seems
to be an entrance to a forum or sacred enclosure rather
than a gate in the fortifications or a support for an aqueduct as some authors suggest. A monumental inscription
(NEPTUNALE) seems to indicate the existence of a Temple
of Neptune.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
V. Correia & Nogueira Goncalves,
Inventário Artístico de Portugal. IV.
Distrito de Coimbra
(1952) 165-66.
J.ALARCÃO