Segobriga (cerro de Cabeza de Griego, Saelices, Cuenca). Monumentalizacion de una ciudad de la Celtiberia en epoca altoimperial

Abstract

In the hill of Cabeza de Griego (district of Saelices, in the Cuenca Province), a town was founded out of a castrum from the Iron Age in Celtiberian territory, whose main economic activity was the exploitation of lapis specularis, a translucent gypsum used as window glass. Its exceptional location at the crossroads of land routes that linked the Ebro Valley with the Betica and the Lusitania and the center of the peninsula with the eastern harbors, especially with Carthago Nova, turned the city into an important trade center with the Mediterranean, where materials and products of different places arrived