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OSSIGERDA

OSSIGERDA or OSICERDA (Οσικέρδα, Ptol. 2.6. § ,63), a town of the Edetani in Hispania Tarraconensis. It was a municipium in the jurisdiction of Caesaraugusta. (Plin. Nat. 3.3. s. 4, who calls the inhabitants Ossigerdenses.) It had a mint. (Florez, Med. ii. p. 532, iii. p. 109 ; Mionnet, i. p. 47, Suppl. i. p. 95; Sestini, p. 177.) Ukert (vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 417) identifies it with Ossera, near Saragossa. [T. H. D.J

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    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 3.3
    • Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, 2.6
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