Bercorcates

The Bercorcates were a people of Aquitania, named only in the list of Aquitanian peoples given by Pliny. Nothing is known of them. They have been placed by conjecture in the high Pyrenees.

Name

They are named once in Pliny's list of the peoples of Aquitania, between the Camponi and the Pinpedunni. The name appears also in the variant form Bercordates. Paul-Marie Duval holds the people to be wholly unknown, and thought it pointless to connect the name with a Borodates on a Pyrenean inscription, which he took for a personal name.

Geography

Duval lists the Bercorcates among the peoples of Pliny's list that cannot be located, but holds that they should be sought in the high valleys of the Pyrenees. Jean-Pierre Bost sets them, with the other small mountain peoples, in the city of the Aquenses around Dax.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Duval 1989, p. 728.
  2. ↑ Duval 1989, p. 732.
  3. ↑ Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 4:108.
  4. ↑ Duval 1989, pp. 727, 732.
  5. ↑ Bost 2009, p. 28.

Primary sources

  • Pliny (1938). Natural History. Loeb Classical Library. Translated by Rackham, H. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674993648. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)

Bibliography

  • Bost, Jean-Pierre (2009). L'Empire romain et les sociétés provinciales: recueil d'articles. Scripta Antiqua. Bordeaux: Ausonius. ISBN 978-2-35613-014-3.
  • Duval, Paul-Marie (1989) [1955]. "Les peuples de l'Aquitaine d'après la liste de Pline". Travaux sur la Gaule (1946–1986). Publications de l'École française de Rome. Vol. 116. Rome: École française de Rome. pp. 721–737. Originally published in Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes 29 (1955), pp. 214–227.