Cauca
CAUCA(Καῦκα: Eth. Καυκαῖοι, Caucenses: Coca), a city at the extreme E. of the territory of the Vaccaei, in Hispania Tarraconensis; belonging to the conventusof Clunia; and lying on the great road from Emerita to Caesaraugusta, 22 M. P. from Nivaria and 29 M. P. from Segovia. (Appian. Hisp. 51, 89; Itin. Ant. p. 435; Plin. Nat. 3.3. s. 4; Ptol. 2.6.50; Zosim. 4.24; Geog. Rav. 4.44; Mariana, Hist. Hisp. 3.2; Florez, Esp. S. 5.14; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1, p. 432.)
[P.S]A site in Tarraconensis 59 km from Segovia on the way to Valladolid. According to Pliny, it was a city of the Vaccaei (HN 3.3.26); it is also cited in Ptolemy (2.6.50) and Appian (Iber. 51.89). It was the birthplace of Theodosius I (Zosimus 4.24). There have been no excavations, and the only finds from the Roman period are two inscriptions (CIL II, 2727-28), the first of them on an Iberian stone pig. However, the antiquity of the settlement is confirmed by the finding of a bronze jug of the Hispano-Punic type, abundant in the S of the peninsula and related to the culture of Tartessos.
BIBLIOGRAPHYA. García y Bellido, “Materiales de Arqueología hispano-púnica: Jarros de bronce,” ArchEspArq 29 (1956) I.
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