SUMELOCENNA
(Rottenburg am Neckar) Baden-Württemburg, Germany.
A Roman settlement
midway on the Neckar, ca. 50 km SE of Stuttgart. Its
name is found in the
Peutinger Table (4.1) and mentioned in many inscriptions (
CIL XIII, 2506, 6358, 6365,
6384, 9084, 11726, 11727). As its name suggests, the
Roman settlement superseded a Celtic one. From 85 to
90, it was part of the Roman Empire and the seat of a
procurator of the saltus Sumelocennensis. Later, it became capital of the civitas Sumelocennensis. A city wall
over 2 km long survives and the ruins of various buildings, among them a bath currently accessible under the
modern gymnasium. The town was provided with water
by a stone-built aqueduct 7 km long, of which numerous
traces may still be seen. The finds are preserved at the
Württemburg Landesmuseum in Stuttgart and at the
Sülchgau-Museum in Rottenburg am Neckar.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
F. Haug & G. Sixt,
Die römischen Inschriften und Bildwerke Württembergs (2d ed. 1914)
199ff; O. Paret,
ORL B, 61 (1936); D. Planck, “Neues
zur römischen Vicusmauer in Rottenburg a.N.,”
Der
Sülchgau 11 (1967) 9ff.
D. PLANCK
