AUGUSTOBRIGA
(Talavera la Vieja) Cáceres, Spain.
A city on the left bank of the Tagus on the
road connecting Emerita Augusta and Toletum (
Antonine Itinerary 438.6). It was the tributary city of Lusitania
(
Plin. 4.118). It had two temples, one of the Republican
period which closely resembled Etruscan temples, with
access by a flight of steps; the other was a temple of the
Antonine period with eight columns. Both stood in a
porticoed plaza; the bases of the columns have been
found. The impluvium of an urban villa yielded a large
painted krater; a sewer and several portraits from the
necropolis are also known. The walls are from the Tetrarchic period and have rectangular towers. Several inscriptions have been found.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A. García y Bellido, “Excavaciones en
Augustobriga (Talavera la Vieja, Cáiceres),”
Noticiario
Arqueológico Hispánico 5 (1956-61) 235-37
I.
J. M. BLÁZQUEZ
