Sanctuary of the Three Gauls

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The Federal Shrine of the Three Gauls is the name given to a lost Roman architectural ensemble, erected in 12 B.C. in Lugdunum (Lyon) at the request of Nero Claudius Drusus, brother-in-law of the emperor and father of the future Claude. In this space, the federated Gaulish nations celebrated imperial worship.

It is admitted that the "Gaulian Confluent Assembly" was convened on 1 August; The choice and reasons for this date are discussed. They are of two kinds: either cultural (continuity of a Celtic cult dedicated to Lug, transposition of a Druidic assembly and/or transposition of an imperial cult dedicated to Augustus), or political (anniversary date of Claude, anniversary of the Battle of Actium, provincial assembly transposed to Gauls). Several other reasons give this Roman colony a special status which it will retain in time: the second imperial monetary workshop, the presence of an urban cohort, the collection of the tax of the federated Gaulish nations (Parisii, Arvernes, Namnetes, Remes...), etc.