Vicus Nediensis
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Dec 05, 2021 12:35 PM
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History
A Roman vicus, attested by name in inscriptions discovered in the 19th century. Based on the reported findspots of the inscriptions, the vicus seems to have been located in the vicinity of modern Spechbach, located southeast of Heidelberg, Germany.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/243310943
49.3464, 8.88333
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of modern Spechbach (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- (vicus N)ediens(is) (vicus Nediensis: Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- (vic)ani (N)ediess(e)s (vicani Nediesses: Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
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settlement-modern, vicus
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Vicus Nediensis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/243310943> [accessed: 26 April 2025]
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