Segobriga

• the chief town of the Celtiberians (in Hispania Tarraconensis), near the modern Priego, Plin. 36, 22, 45, § 160.
• —Hence, Sēgobrī-genses, ium, m., the inhabitants of Segobriga, Plin. 3, 3, 4, § 25; Front. 3, 10, 6.

SEGOBRI´GA (Σεγόβριγα, Ptol. 2.6.58).

The capital of the Celtiberi in Hispania Tarraconensis. (Plin. Nat. 3.3. s. 4.) It lay SW. of Caesaraugusta, and in the jurisdiction of Carthago Nova. (Plin. l. c.) The surrounding district was celebrated for its talc or selenite. (Id. 36.22. s. 45.) It must have been in the neighbourhood of Priego, where, near Pennaescrite, considerable ruins are still to be found. (Florez, Esp. Sagr. 7. p. 61.) For coins see Sestini, 1. p. 193. (Cf. Strab. 3. p. 162; Front. Strat. 3.10. 6.)

A town of the Edetani in Hispania Tarraconensis, known only from inscriptions and coins, the modern Segorbe. (Florez, Esp. Sagr. 5. p. 21, 8. p. 97, and Med. pp. 573, 650; Mionnet, 1. p. 50, and Supp. 1. p. 102.) COIN OF SEGOBRIGA.[T.H.D]

The chief town of the Celtiberi, in Hispania Tarraconensis, southwest of Caesaraugusta (Saragossa), near the modern Priego.

On the Cabeza de Grego hill 4 km S of Saelices, SE of Tarancón. It was the chief town of Celtiberia (Plin. 3.3.25) and a noble and powerful town (Liv. 40.50.1), subdued by T. Sempronius Graccus in 179 B.C. and attacked by Viriatus in 146 B.C. Under Augustus it belonged to Tarraconensis and to the Conventus iuridicus of Carthago Nova, and was the see of a bishop under the Visigoths.

The town had a wall with towers (diameter 400 m). Monuments included the theater, the baths, the curia converted into the St. Bartholomew sanctuary, the aqueduct, several cisterns, a columbarium, a late Roman cemetery, a sacellum dedicated to Diana, with inscriptions, and a Visigoth basilica. Finds in the Cuenca Archaeological Museum include a female togate statue, columns, capitals, friezes, inscriptions, coins, and terra sigillata. The town was abandoned at the time of the Moorish invasion.

N. Sentenach, “Segobriga,” Memorias de la Junta Superior de Excavaciones 34 (1921); H. Losada & R. Donoso, “Excavaciones en Segobriga,” Excavaciones Arqueológicas en España 43 (1965) MI.