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Condevicnum (Nantes) Loire-Atlantique, France.
There are few traces of the port of Condevicnum, and no substructures have been
found in situ. The city, however, had some public and religious buildings, judging
from the many architectural fragments discovered here. One of these is a dedicatory
inscription, now in the Hotel de Ville, which mentions that Nantes had a corps
of boatmen, the Nautae Ligerici.
At the end of the 3d c. A.D. a rampart with round towers was erected
around the city, some sections of which can be seen near the cathedral. The lower
courses of one of the city gates, the Porte St. Pierre, uncovered at the beginning
of this century, are also visible today. The collections of the Musee Dobre in
Nantes include a good many objects from ancient Condevicaum.
M. Petit, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Feb 2006 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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