Segodunum (Aquitania)

Segodunum on the Tabula Peutingeriana

Segodunum ( Greek  Σεγόδουνον ; later called Ruthena civitas ) was the main town of the Rutener , a Celtic tribe in southern Gaul .

The place was at the place of today's Rodez ( Département Aveyron ) in the Massif Central in the south of today's France in the Roman province of Gallia Aquitania on the northern border of the province of Gallia Narbonensis . Archaeological remains from Roman times include an amphitheater and an aqueduct . A systematic exploration of the city, which was located on a hill above the Aveyron , was not possible due to the modern development. Isolated finds, especially ceramics, indicate a settlement from the 1st century BC. BC to the 4th century AD

Segodunum is listed in the Tabula Peutingeriana and in the Geographike Hyphegesis .

literature

• Michel Labrousse:  Segodunum (Rodez) Aveyron, France . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
• Michael Polfer: Segodunum. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 11, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01481-9 , Sp. 341.