Historical place profile

Sumelocenna

Sumelocenna was a Roman settlement on the Neckar River that served as the seat of the procurator of the saltus Sumelocennensis in the late first century AD.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:118985
Catalogue ID
pleiades:118985
Place type
settlement
Coordinates
48.477643, 8.937121
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

Sumelocenna was a Roman settlement on the Neckar River that served as the seat of the procurator of the saltus Sumelocennensis in the late first century AD.

Geographic evidence

The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.

Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 12 B4 Sumelocenna

Source and reuse

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Research path

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