The Catenates or Cattenates were a Gallic tribe dwelling between the Isar and Inn rivers during the Iron Age.
Name
editThey 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
editThe 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
editThey 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]
References
edit- ^ a b Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 3:20.
- ^ a b Falileyev 2010, s.v. Cat(t)enates.
- ^ Evans 1967, p. 174.
- ^ de Bernardo Stempel 2015, p. 91.
- ^ Talbert 2000, Map 12: Mogontiacum-Reginum-Lauriacum.
- ^ Schumacher, Dietz & Zanier 2007.
Primary sources
edit- Pliny (1938). Natural History. Loeb Classical Library. Translated by Rackham, H. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674993648.
Bibliography
edit- 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. Vol. 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.