The end of Castro del Rio is rich in deposits of Roman times. The survival of this population for many years has left a rich architectural heritage spread throughout our territory.
remains of Roman villas and towns of some importance are found scattered around our current core urban.
This significant concentration of people was due to the many farms mainly engaged in the production of grain and oil. Constant demographics
important burials occurred around the towns.
Often these areas coincided with older Iberian period located in the surrounding hills and small valleys and always within sight of the settlement but away from them and near the roads. In this way they were accessible and visible, so it was inevitable to read the inscriptions of the tombs and the deceased would be remembered beyond death: "Stop a bit in your footsteps, I beg you, young peep, pilgrim, so that you can meet my fate on my enrollment dismal," "You, traveler, wish me, that the earth will be light." A very close is the Ibero-Roman necropolis Castro located in the foothills of the current cemetery.
Gradually the Iberian burial customs have long been forgotten by worshiping a new form of burial more Romanized.
Failure to perform funeral rites, such as not to bury the dead, for it meant the impossibility of reaching the world of the dead and unable to return to the world of the living, would find themselves caught between two worlds, taking an attitude of revenge toward the living.
Some also preferred to be buried in his properties. Although it was forbidden burial in fertile soil, this was not fulfilled.
A proclamation from the V century BC to the Law of the Twelve Tables was established strict prohibition to carry out burials within the city, constituting the walled city as a real border between the living world and the world of the dead. Only certain characters emperors and social relevance had the privilege of being buried in intramural fields, like children who died with less than 40 days.
These laws gave way to local ordinances such as the prohibition of burying or burning funeral pyres within 500 steps of the walls. The reasons given were to meet hygiene regulations, legal, cultural, religious and security.
Space organization funeral was handled by local magistrates. Pursuing the space, soil preparation with bite ashlar pillars and placing markers to define the place.
The practice of indicating the area through Inscribed pillars funeral or wake is well documented since the second half of the first century BC C. As is clear from a speech of Cicero and a passage from Horace.
In the vicinity of Castro del Rio Alto Mill area was discovered cipo quite important. The funerary inscription mentions the locus sepulchri largest known for the peninsula, a funerary enclosure of about 3000m2, read in conjunction with a possible village house, CIL, II ² / 5, 403 (2)
The recesses present in the bottom the same preparation to host show stakes that encircle this vast area of \u200b\u200bland.
(1) Cipote.
SPANISH ROYAL ACADEMY OF THE SPANISH LANGUAGE DICTIONARY - Twenty-second edition
(De cipo).
1. m. Stone marker.
2. m. Awkward man, goofy, silly.
3. m. Fat man chubby.
4. m. club (stick ‖).
5. m. Drum stick.
6. m. vulg. penis.
7. m. And. Blockhead, chump, wedge
8. m. Col. U. t. on sat. ponder. Cipote mess!, Cock sheath!
9. m. Ven. U. to insult someone without naming it.
(2) ficha.HD-number: HD002740
individual responsible: Graef last update: 2007-05-23 status of the EDH-version: AE corresponds to reading
province checked with photo: modern country Baetica : Spain Region: Córdoba
find spot (Ancient name): find spot (modern name): Castro del Río, bei find spot (street, etc.): The Mill High - The Polish
zwischen date: specific: 1 - 100
literature: AE 1984, 0536.
JF Rodríguez Neila, Habis 14, 1983, 178-192, Nr 5, pl. 6c
you - AE 1984. CIL
02 (2. Aufl.) 05, 00403; picture. Externe
Photo (s): www2.uah.es: cilii5, 00403.jpg cil.bbaw.de: PH0005353.jpg
A-Text: L (ocus) in border / p (edes) CCXXV et / in agro p (edes) CL.
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