The Numantine War was the last conflict of the Celtiberian Wars fought by the Romans to subdue those people along the Ebro. It was a twenty-year conflict between the Celtiberian tribes of Hispania Citerior and the Roman government. It began in 154 BC as a revolt of the Celtiberians of Numantia on the Douro. The first phase of the war ended in 151, but in 143, war flared up again with a new insurrection in Numantia.
Numantine War
Siege of Numantia
Appian of Alexandria was a Greek historian with Roman citizenship who prospered during the reigns of Emperors of Rome Trajan, Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius.
A page of the Latin translation of Appian’s "Roman History" by Pier Candido Decembrio, with imaginary portrait of the historian
Appian: Historia Romana. Printed in Venice 1477 by Erhard Ratdolt
Painting by Eugenio Oliva depicting the Vaccaei going out to defend Palencia from the troops of Lucius Licinius Lucullus in 151 BC. The historian Appian is depicted at right recording events; this is a poetic fiction, as Appian was writing from a standpoint three centuries in the future.