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- Verraco abstract "The verracos (Spanish: verraco; Portuguese: berrão) are granite megalithic monuments, sculptures of animals that are to be found in the west of the Iberian meseta - the high central plain of the Iberian peninsula - in the Spanish provinces of Ávila, Salamanca, Zamora, and Cáceres, but also in the north of Portugal and Galicia. Over 400 have been identified. The Spanish word verraco normally refers to boars and the sculptures are sometimes called verracos de piedra (pigs of stone) to distinguish them from live animals. The stone verracos appear to represent not only pigs but also other animals. Some have been identified as bulls, and the village of El Oso, Ávila, named for "the Bear", has a verraco which supposedly represents a bear.Their dates range from the mid 4th to 1st centuries BC.There is some similar zoomorphic monument markers in lands of Poland from the same period or older.[citation needed]Though they were perhaps not confined to a single usage, the verracos were an essential part of the landscape of the Vettones, one of the Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula. It has generally been assumed from their high visibility in their original open fields surroundings that these sculptures had some protective religious significance, whether guarding the security of livestock or as funerary monuments (some of them bear Latin funerary inscriptions). The verracos are particularly numerous too in the vicinity of the walled Celtiberian communities that Romans called oppida.".
- Verraco thumbnail IMG_Toros_de_Guisando.JPG?width=300.
- Verraco wikiPageExternalLink Verracos.
- Verraco wikiPageExternalLink alvarez_sanchis_6_5.html.
- Verraco wikiPageID "1445653".
- Verraco wikiPageRevisionID "552750852".
- Verraco hasPhotoCollection Verraco.
- Verraco subject Category:European_archaeology.
- Verraco subject Category:Megalithic_monuments.
- Verraco type Artifact100021939.
- Verraco type MegalithicMonuments.
- Verraco type Memorial103743902.
- Verraco type Object100002684.
- Verraco type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- Verraco type Structure104341686.
- Verraco type Whole100003553.
- Verraco type YagoGeoEntity.
- Verraco type YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity.
- Verraco comment "The verracos (Spanish: verraco; Portuguese: berrão) are granite megalithic monuments, sculptures of animals that are to be found in the west of the Iberian meseta - the high central plain of the Iberian peninsula - in the Spanish provinces of Ávila, Salamanca, Zamora, and Cáceres, but also in the north of Portugal and Galicia. Over 400 have been identified.".
- Verraco label "Berrão".
- Verraco label "Verraco de piedra".
- Verraco label "Verraco".
- Verraco label "Verraco".
- Verraco label "Verraco".
- Verraco label "Веррако".
- Verraco sameAs Verracos_de_piedra.
- Verraco sameAs Verraco.
- Verraco sameAs Verraco_de_piedra.
- Verraco sameAs Verraco.
- Verraco sameAs Berrão.
- Verraco sameAs m.0525x0.
- Verraco sameAs Q2988353.
- Verraco sameAs Q2988353.
- Verraco sameAs Verraco.
- Verraco wasDerivedFrom Verraco?oldid=552750852.
- Verraco depiction IMG_Toros_de_Guisando.JPG.
- Verraco isPrimaryTopicOf Verraco.
