Abodiacum

Abodiacum or Auodiacum (Ancient Greek: Ἀβουδίακον)[1] or Abuzacum[2] was a town of Vindelicia, probably coinciding with the modern Epfach on the river Lech, where remains of Roman buildings are still extant. The stations, however, in the Itineraries and the Peutingerian Table are not easily identified with the site of Epfach; and Abodiacum is placed by some topographers at the hamlet of Peisenberg, on the slope of a hill with the same name, or in the neighbourhood of Rosenheim in Bavaria.[3]

Statue of Venus recovered from Epfach.

References
  1. So in the Tabula Peutingeriana and in Ptolemy's Geography 2.13.5
  2. So in the error-ridden Vita of Magnus of Füssen
  3. Albert Anton von Muchar, Das römische Norikum.
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Abodiacum". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.


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