Sinzig

Historical description

Modern Sinzig in Germany's Rheinland-Pfalz was the site of a Roman-era pottery manufacturing site. Scattered other Roman archaeological remains have been identified over the years, but a settlement center -- presumed to have been located on the Kirchhügel -- has not yet been positively located. BAtlas followed earlier scholarship in tentatively identifying this presumed settlement as "Sentiacum" or a variation on same by inferring backward in time on the basis of its earliest appearance in an 8th-century CE document of Pippin the Younger.

Geographic evidence

The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.

Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 11 H2 [Sentiacum]?

Source and reuse

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Research path

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