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Location:

  • France, Clermont-Ferrand
  • geo:45.778728,3.08577
  • Location ± 5-25 m.

Period or year:

  • -2xx~ / unknown

Class:

  • City
  • invisible

Annotations

Augustonemetum was the chief town of the Arverni in Aquitania, now Clermont-Ferrand. Original name Strabo calls Nemossus1.

See:

  1. The Geography of Strabo of the Loeb Classical Library edition, Book IV Chapter 2. 1923
  2. “Augustonemetum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly 1854
  3. The Celtic Origin of a Great Part of the Greek and Latin Languages,: And of Many Classical Proper Names, Proved by a Comparison of Greek and Latin with the Gaelic Language Or the Celtic of Scotland, p. 58
  4. http://www.augustonemetum.fr/

References

  1. The Arverni are situated on the Liger; their metropolis is Nemossus,​ a city situated on the Liger


Relevant museums

St-Germain-en-Laye, Musée des Antiquités nationales

St-Germain-en-Laye, Musée des Antiquités nationales


Nearby

Museum Bargoin

Museum Bargoin

Montaudou, Ceyrat (2 km)

Montaudou, Ceyrat

Temple des Côtes de Clermont (3 km)

Temple des Côtes de Clermont


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