SEGISAMA
(Sasamón) Burgos, Spain.
Town
NW of Burgos and NE of Castrojeriz, belonging to the
Conventus Cluniensis (Plin.
HN 3.26). He attributes
it to the Turmodigi and distinguishes two localities, Segisamo and Segisama Julia. It was a town of the Vaccaei
according to Polybios, cited in Strabo (
3.4.13), and a military camp of Augustus in 26 (Florus 2.33.48). Ptolemy
cites it as a town belonging to the Vaccaei and calls it
Iulia, for Augustus. In the
Antonine Itinerary Segisamo
is between Lacobriga and Deobrigula (394.5); it is also
mentioned by the Cosmographer of Ravenna (308.10;
318.2). There is an Augustan pillar mentioning the Legio
IV Mac. (
CIL II, 5807) and a tabula patronatus dating
from A.D. 239 (
CIL II, 5812).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
RE IIA, 1074; B. Osaba, “Catálogo Arqueológico de la provincia de Burgos,”
Noticiario Arqueológico Hispanico 6 (1962) 265.
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