Carisa

CARISA or CARISSA (Coins: Κάρισσα, Ptol. 2.4.13: regia (Carissa cognomine Aurelia, Plin. iii. l. s. 3: Ru. with inscriptions at Carixa, near Bornos, in the neighbourhood of Seville), a city of the Turdetani in Hispania Baetica, in the conventus of Gades, having the civitas Latina. Several of its coins are extant. (Caro, Ant. Hisp. 3.19; Morales, Antig. 8b.; Florez, Med. de Esp. vol. 1. p. 285, vol. 3. p. 30; Mionnet, vol. 1. p. 8, Suppl. vol. 1. p. 16; Sestini, pp. 20, 38; Eckhel, vol. 1. p. 16).