page_title: Rodez
section_title: Antiquity
hierarchical_section_title: Rodez / History / Antiquity
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Inscription latine d'époque romaine retrouvée à Rodez (Aveyron). L'inscription porte un texte gravé à l'identique sur les deux faces de la pierre. "[---] / f(ilius) Vol[t(inia) ---] / sacer[dos Romae] / et Au[gusti] / Caes[aris] / senatu[i sedilia] / de suo [dedit] // [---]rigis / [--- Fla?]ccus / [sacerdo]s Romae / [et Aug]usti / [Caes]aris / [senatu]i sedilia / [de su]o dedit" Traduction française&#160;: "[... Fla?]ccus, fils de [...], inscrit dans la tribu Voltinia, prêtre de Rome et d'Auguste César, a offert à ses frais des sièges pour le sénat." Date&#160;: époque augustéenne. Référence&#160;: AE 1994, 1215&#160;; HD051641English: Ancient Roman inscription from Rodez (Aveyron, France), now in the Fenaille museum. References&#160;: AE 1994, 1215.
context_page_description: Rodez is a small city and commune in the South of France, about 150 km northeast of Toulouse. It is the prefecture of the department of Aveyron in the region of Occitanie. Rodez is the seat of the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Rodez, of the First Constituency of Aveyron as well as of the general Council of Aveyron.
  Former capital of the Rouergue, the city is seat of the Diocese of Rodez and Vabres. Its inhabitants are called Ruthénois, from the name of the Ruteni, a Gallic tribe which once occupied the territory, the former demonym of "Rodanois" having given way to this scholarly form.
context_section_description: Rodez is a city of more than two millennia: its existence dates back to the 5th century BC, when a Celtic tribe of Central Europe, the Ruteni, stopped in the south of Auvergne to found one of these characteristic oppida of the Gallic civilization, that of Segodunum. Many elements of heritage bear witness to the Romanisation of Segodunum.
  While Christianity spread in the wake of the evangelising activity of Saint Amans, the city witnessed and at times suffered during, the less stable times that following the fall of the Roman Empire.
caption: Latin inscription found in Rodez (Augustan era)
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