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OCILIS (Medinaceli) Soria, Spain.

Town 76 km S of Soria and SW of Calatayud. Framed in the Roman wall on the entrance road is the only Roman arch in Spain with three openings. It is 13.1 m long, 8.5 m high, and 2.05 m wide. Both niches in the facade are crowned with pediments. In the entablature was an inscription, now lost. It probably dates from the 2d c. A.D.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

J. R. Mélida, Monumentos romanos de España (1925)I; B. Taracena, Ars Hispaniae II (1947)I.

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