Bastetani

{{Short description|Ancient people of the Iberian peninsula}}

File:Exvoto bastetano de bronce (M.A.N. 18538) 01.jpg votive feminine figure of the Bastetani]]

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The Bastetani or Bastuli were an ancient Iberian (pre-Roman) people of the Iberian Peninsula (the Roman Hispania). They are believed to have spoken the Iberian language.{{Citation | author1=Roman Archaeology Conference (1st : 1995 : University of Reading) | author2=Keay, S. J | author3=Belén, María | author4=Roman Archaeology Conference | title=The Archaeology of early Roman Baetica | date=1998 | publisher=Journal of Roman Archaeology | isbn=978-1-887829-29-8 }} The relationship between the Iberian Bastetani and the Tartessian Mastieni (who lived in Mastia, on the southeastern coast of the peninsula) is not entirely clear.{{cite book |last1=de Hoz |first1=Javier |title=Historia lingüística de la Península Ibérica en la Antigüedad: Preliminares y mundo meridional prerromano |date=2010 |publisher=Editorial CSIC |location=Madrid, Spain |isbn=9788400092764 |page=346 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OQfiZVYteNYC&pg=PA346 |language=es}}

Their territory Bastetania [https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastetania] extended through the southeastern Iberian Peninsula, which currently encompasses southern Albacete, Almería, Granada, eastern Málaga, southeastern Jaén and western Murcia. Their main towns were located between Baria (present-day Villaricos) and Bailo (Cádiz), also including Malaka, Abdera, Sexi and Carteia.Luis A. García Moreno, Mastienos y Bastetanos: un problema de la etnología hispana prerromana. 1990 Their capital was probably the city known as Basti by the Romans, which corresponds to present-day Baza. The Lady of Baza, a famous Bastetani sculpture, was recovered from the necropolis of Basti in 1971.