Catenates

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The Catenates or Cattenates were a Gallic tribe dwelling between the Isar and Inn rivers during the Iron Age.

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Name

They are mentioned as Catenates (var.catte-) by Pliny (1st c. AD). [1] [2]

The ethnic name probably contains the Gaulish stem catu-, meaning 'battle'. [3] [2] Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel has proposed to interpret the name as *Catu-(g)nat-es ('those born in battle'). [4]

Geography

The Catenates lived between the Isar and Inn rivers. Their territory was located south of the Rucinates, east of the Vindelici, north of the Baiovarii. [5] They were part of the Vindelici. [6]

History

They are mentioned by Pliny the Elder as one of the Alpine tribes conquered by Rome in 16–15 BC, and whose name was engraved on the Tropaeum Alpium. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 3:20.
  2. 1 2 Falileyev 2010, s.v. Cat(t)enates.
  3. ↑ Evans 1967, p. 174.
  4. ↑ de Bernardo Stempel 2015, p. 91.
  5. ↑ Talbert 2000, Map 12: Mogontiacum-Reginum-Lauriacum.
  6. ↑ Schumacher, Dietz & Zanier 2007.

Primary sources

  • Pliny (1938). Natural History. Loeb Classical Library. Translated by Rackham, H. Harvard University Press. ISBN   978-0674993648.

Bibliography

  • de Bernardo Stempel, Patrizia (2015). "Zu den keltisch benannten Stämmen im Umfeld des oberen Donauraums". In Lohner-Urban, Ute; Scherrer, Peter (eds.). Der obere Donauraum 50 v. bis 50 n. Chr. Frank & Timme. ISBN   978-3-7329-0143-2.
  • Evans, D. Ellis (1967). Gaulish Personal Names: A Study of Some Continental Celtic Formations. Clarendon Press. OCLC   468437906.
  • Falileyev, Alexander (2010). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-names: A Celtic Companion to the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. CMCS. ISBN   978-0955718236.
  • Schumacher, Stefan; Dietz, Karlheinz; Zanier, Werner (2007). "Vindeliker". In Beck, Heinrich (ed.). Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. 35 (2 ed.). De Gruyter. ISBN   978-3110187847.
  • Talbert, Richard J. A. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. ISBN   978-0691031699.
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