Ucetia
UCETIAin Gallia Narbonensis, north of Nîmes. This place is known only from the Roman remains which have been discovered there, and from the inscription VCETIAEon a stone found at Nîmes. The place is Uzes, north of the river Gardon, from which place the water was brought to Nîmesby the aqueduct over the Gardon. [NEMAUSUS] Ucetia appears in the Notitia of the Provinces of Gallia under the name of Castrum Uceciense. Ucetia was a bishopric as early as the middle of the fifth century.
[G.L]Situated 25 km N of Nîmes, on the Alzon, a tributary of the Gardon, this oppidum, whose ancient name is known from inscriptions (CIL XII, 3362), should be identified as one of the 24 heavily populated oppida of the Volcae Arecomici, which under the Early Empire still formed a confederation with Nemausus as its capital (Strab. 4.1.12; Plin. 3.37).
The pre-Roman and Roman towns are covered by the modern city, but construction work continues to turn up chance architectural remains and especially inscriptions. In the environs of Uzès are found the Airan and Eure springs (Ura fons), which supplied Nîmes with its water by way of an aqueduct; numerous vestiges of it remain, such as the famous segment known as the Pont-du-Gard. There is a local archaeological museum.
BIBLIOGRAPHYCarte archéologique de la Gaule romaine, fasc. VIII, Gard (1941) 166-70, nos. 198-99, 160-62, no. 179; RE 8 A1 (1955) col. 547.
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