Ossigerda

OSSIGERDA or OSICERDA (Οσικέρδα, Ptol. 2.6. § ,63), a town of the Edetani in Hispania Tarraconensis. It was a municipium in the jurisdiction of Caesaraugusta. (Plin. Nat. 3.3. s. 4, who calls the inhabitants Ossigerdenses.) It had a mint. (Florez, Med. 2. p. 532, 3. p. 109 ; Mionnet, 1. p. 47, Suppl. 1. p. 95; Sestini, p. 177.) Ukert (vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 417) identifies it with Ossera, near Saragossa. [T. H. D.J