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DUEÑAS Palencia, Spain.

Town between Valladolid and Palencia, with a 1st c. Roman villa rebuilt in the 4th c. It had a mosaic of the age of Constantine with a horse labeled AMORIS, and a large head of Oceanus flanked by Nereids riding a sea bull and a sea leopard.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

P. de Palol, “El mosaico de tema oceánico de Dueñas, Palencia,” BSAA 29 (1963); id., “Das Okeanos-mosaik in der römischen Villa zu Dueñas (prov. Palencia),” MadrMitt 8 (1967) 196-225MI; A. Revilla et al., Excavaciones en la villa romana del “Cercado de San Isidro,” Dueñas, Palencia (1964).

P. DE PALOL

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