Ambisontes
Creators: H. Bender Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Base map by Ryan M. Horne for Pleiades and the Ancient World Mapping Center (ancient terrain after the Barrington Atlas). Map interaction design and implementation by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, and Tom Elliott for Pleiades.
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/187280
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people, tribe
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 19 E2 Ambisontes
H. Bender, G. Moosbauer, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, M. Puhane, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Ambisontes: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2015 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/187280> [accessed: 05 July 2020]
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Plin. HN 3.137.4 and CIL V 7817 almost certainly refer to another
tribe located more to the west, maybe somewhere in the upper Inn valley roughly around Pfunds (https://goo.gl/maps/oQGLfbWUFNL2) or Landeck (https://goo.gl/maps/9sXRLFGwAjS2). For detailed argumentation see
Lücke, S.: s.v. “Tropaeum Alpium”, in: VA-de 18/2, Methodologie, http://dx.doi.org/10.5282/verba-alpina?urlappend=%3Fpage_id%3D493%26db%3D182%26letter%3DT%2399