ANTICARIA
(Antequera) Málaga, Spain.
Town 62 km N of Málaga, built over a megalithic cultural center. The Roman town is documented in the
Antonine Itinerary, 412.2, and by the Ravenna Cosmographer, 316.1 and 18. The nucleus of Roman Anticaria
was probably under the mediaeval castle.
A building E of the present city, beyond the megalithic
caves, has a wall of blind arches 54 m long, 2.8 m high,
and ca. 1.5 m thick, closely connected to a rectangular
enclosure of the same length and 8 m wide by 2.8 m
deep. This was probably a villa rather than a bath
because of its distance from the urban center; mosaic
fragments have been found. Sculptural and epigraphic
material and metal work found in the area is in the municipal museum, notably a portrait of Drusus Maior and
two busts, of a man and a woman, of the Antonine
period.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
S. Giménez Reyna & A. García y Bellido, “Antigüedades romanas de Antequera,”
ArchEspArq 21 (1948) 48-66
MPI; A. de Luque, “Arqueología
antequerana,”
XI Congreso Nacional de Ainqueclogía,
Mérida, 1968 (1970) 557-67
MI.
L. G. IGLESIAS
