Sogionti

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The Sogionti or Sogiontii were a Gallic tribe dwelling around present-day Sisteron during the Iron Age.

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Name

They are mentioned as Sogionti (var.songi-, sonti-) by Pliny (1st c. AD), [1] and as Sogionti and Sogion[ti]or(um) on inscriptions. [2] [3]

The meaning of the name remains obscure. Guy Barruol compared the first element to the toponym Soio. [4]

Geography

The Sogiontii lived in the middle valley of the Durance river, around present-day Sisteron (Segustero). [5] Their territory was located north of the Reii, west of the Bodiontici, east of the Vocontii, and south of the Sebaginni. [6]

They were probably part of the Vocontian confederation. [7] [8]

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. ↑ CIL 5:7817, 12:1871.
  3. ↑ Falileyev 2010, s.v. Sogiontii.
  4. ↑ Barruol 1969, p. 284.
  5. ↑ Barruol 1969, pp. 284–285.
  6. ↑ Talbert 2000, Map 16: Col. Forum Iulii-Albingaunum.
  7. ↑ Barruol 1969, pp. 278–284.
  8. ↑ Rivet 1988, pp. 16, 286.

Primary sources

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

Bibliography

  • Barruol, Guy (1969). Les Peuples préromains du Sud-Est de la Gaule: étude de géographie historique. E. de Boccard. OCLC   3279201.
  • 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.
  • Rivet, A. L. F. (1988). Gallia Narbonensis: With a Chapter on Alpes Maritimae : Southern France in Roman Times. Batsford. ISBN   978-0-7134-5860-2.
  • Talbert, Richard J. A. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. ISBN   978-0691031699.
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