Sistemas de irrigación de época antigua en el territorio de Caesar Augusta (Zaragoza, España): testimonios epigráficos y evidencias arqueológicas

Abstract

In the territory of the city of Salduie / Caesar Augusta (Zaragoza) two important legal epigraphs have be found: the Bronze of Contrebia or Tabula Contrebiensis, dated in 87 BC, and the Bronze of Agon or Lex Riui Hiberiensis, from time of Hadrian. They report two separate lawsuits for irrigation water management and they highlight the importance of irrigation systems in the territory of the city of Salduie / Caesar Augusta in Iberian and Roman times. The data from the Bronze of Contrebia are related to the ancient topography known through archaeological research. It allows us to propose where the lands disputed in the lawsuit were located and the place where the channel irrigation took water. It is also possible to propose a location for the Sosinestana ciuitas which is mentioned in the epigraph. The study of the Bronze of Agón in its territorial and archaeological context enables us to propose where some of the irrigated lands mentioned in the inscription were located.