MYRTILIS
(Mértola) Alentejo, Portugal.
Mentioned by Pliny (
HN 4.22), Mela (3.1), Ptolemy
(2.5), and referred to in the
Antonine Itinerary. Myrtilis
was the port of embarcation on the Guadiana for the
copper mined in the neighboring mines of S. Domingo.
Good examples of sculpture are preserved from the period of Roman domination. Six huge columns on the
bank of the river have been thought the remains of a
Roman bridge, but they are more likely the remains of
an aqueduct of the Muslim period.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
L. F. Delgado Alves, “Aspectos da Arqueologia em Myrtílis (Mértola),”
Arquivo de Beja 13
(1956) 21-104
I.
J. ALARCÃO