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Verbeia

a Pleiades name resource

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Romanized Name(s):
Verbeia

Name as attested:

Verbeia

Language:
Latin

Name type:
geographic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Less certain

Temporal attestations:

Roman, early Empire (30 BC-AD 300) (confident)
Late Antique (AD 300-AD 640) (confident)

References:

See Further:

RIB 635
Rivet and Smith 1979, 493

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Rivet and Smith asserts that Verbeia, attested as the goddess of the River Wharfe in RIB 635 (VERBEIAE SACRUM), is "very probably" also that of the Roman fort at Ilkley.

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