Lucius Cerialius Rectus, agent Starling

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Human activity on the plateau began long before Roman rule. People used the place from the Late Bronze Age (ninth–eighth centuries BCE) and the site saw La Tène period occupation from the mid‑second century BCE. A Gaulish cult area developed there with votive deposits in dark, organic soil, wooden enclosures and other ritual activity that continued into the Roman era.

From the late first century BCE the plateau acquired a planned urban layout and a concentrated monumental quarter. Stone temples and public buildings replaced earlier wooden shrines, and streets and housing blocks spread across the plateau. Inscriptions name local officials involved in dedications and administration. One fragmentary inscription from the theatre records Lucius Cerialius Rectus as sponsor and links the place to the pagus of the Catuslugi. A later dedication for a basilica records Publius Magnus Belliger and makes explicit reference to the divine power of the emperor and to Jupiter and Mercury of Briga, thereby giving the settlement the name Briga

Briga (Eu): Roman town and regional civic and religious centre - Ancient History Sites

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