The identification proposal for the city of "Confloenta/Confluenta" in Duratón (Sepúlveda, Segovia, Hispania Citerior)

Abstract

This paper analyzes Ptolemy’s identification proposal for the Arevaci Confloenta/Confluenta with the Roman city documented by archaeology in the Los Mercados site in Duratón (Sepúlveda, Segovia), founded at the start of the 1st century B.C., as part of the Roman republican urbanisation policy of the Celtiberia, and the seat of a flavian municipium.

Keywords

• confloenta
• confluenta
• duratón
• los mercados
• sepúlveda. celtiberia.
• fundación
• municipium.