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754: 746: 168: 120: 17: 243:. It has been suggested that this error comes about through the use of differing and imperfect sources to make this section of the Geography. In effect Ptolemy has apparently confused the Abnoba with the Roman border, and therefore with what are today called the 182:, 4.79). He says that it arises opposite the town of Rauricum in Gaul and flows from there beyond the Alps, implying that the river begins in the Alps, which it does not. If Rauricum is to be identified with the Roman settlement, Augusta Raurica, modern 438: 470: 753: 433: 463: 329: 298:
Les dieux gaulois : répertoire des noms de divinités celtiques connus par l'épigraphie, les textes antiques et la toponymie.
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Abnoba, sometimes spelt Arnoba or Arbona, has been used to refer to a mountain range comprising the
1113: 720: 160:, Abnoba was the name of a mountain, from a grassy slope of which flows the source of the River 1240: 323: 273: 1067: 8: 660: 560: 235:(2.10) also mentions the mountain range, but incorrectly implies a position north of the 368: 346: 1105: 1161: 1153: 630: 407: 393: 301: 277: 266: 28: 1087: 1077: 883: 765: 700: 495: 479: 187: 51:
The etymology of the theonym is uncertain. It has been associated with the etymon *
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goddess, and is known from about nine epigraphic inscriptions. One altar at the
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is a name with theological and geographical meanings: It is the name of a
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Ptolemy's maps of northern Europe, a reconstruction of the prototypes
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Encyclopedia of gods : over 2,500 deities of the world
67:, either "naked, nude" or "tree", or with the verbal root * 60: 201:
The Danube begins with two small rivers draining the
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(1921). 14: 1252: 418: 250: 434:Proto Celtic — English lexicon 406:, Thorsons Publishers (2002): 404:The Celts: Life, Myth, and Art 390:Dictionary of Celtic Mythology 360: 337: 311: 290: 257: 194:, Pliny must be confusing the 1: 114: 46: 7: 10: 1257: 429:Jones' Celtic Encyclopedia 353:Collier's New Encyclopedia 1180: 1152: 1104: 1086: 988: 915: 882: 764: 742: 508: 487: 388:Ellis, Peter Berresford, 300:Paris: Editions Errance. 223:Furtwangen im Schwarzwald 31:who was worshiped in the 373:, Kjøbenhavn, H. Hagerup 264:Jordan, Michael (1993). 1236:Sea and river goddesses 758: 750: 333:. London: John Murray. 172: 171:Furtwangen in the mist 124: 123:The source of the Breg 71:"burst out, be damp". 21: 756: 748: 170: 122: 111:goddess of the hunt. 19: 490:Ancient deities of 321:, ed. 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Gaulish goddess
Black Forest
mountain
mountain range
PIE
forest
river
Roman baths
Badenweiler
Germany
Mühlenbach
Diana
Roman

Odenwald
Spessart
Baar
Rhine
Neckar
Tacitus
Germania
Danube

Pliny the Elder
Augst
Basel-Landschaft
Switzerland
Rhine
Black Forest

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