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Archaeological site of Contrebia Belaisca

Botorrita, Comarca Central, Zaragoza

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Archaeological site of Contrebia Belaisca

Nature · Botorrita, Comarca Central, Zaragoza

Celtiberian oppidum located at the Cabezo de las Minas de Botorrita, also called Contebacom Bel, with a population attested from the 5th century BC to the middle of the 1st century BC. The proconsul Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus besieged it and massacred its inhabitants during the first Celtiberian war, and it was finally destroyed after Julius Caesar's victory over the Pompeians at Ilerda in 49 BC; catapult balls and the remains of a ditch with a double wall have been found there. Excavations have uncovered an architectural complex on the upper part of the hill with a possible political-religious function, and since the 1970s the bronze tablets bearing Celtiberian inscriptions known as the Bronzes of Botorrita, which give the site its name, have been recovered there.

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