Sebaginni

The Sebaginni were a Gallic tribe dwelling in the middle Durance valley during the Iron Age.

Name

They are mentioned as Sebaginnos (var. -gninos, Sabagnanos) by Cicero (early 1st c. BC).

The meaning of the name remains obscure. The first element, seba-, can be compared with the personal names Seboθθu, Sebosus, Sebosiana, and Sebbaudus. The second component, -ginn-, may be Celtic, too.

Geography

The Sebaginni lived in the middle valley of the Durance river, north of present-day Sisteron (Segustero). The Barrington Atlas locates their territory south of the Avantici, east of the Vocontii, north of the Sogiontii, and west of the Edenates and Gallitae.

They were probably part of the Vocontian confederation.

References

  1. ↑ Cicero. Pro P. Quinctio, 25:80.
  2. 1 2 Falileyev 2010, s.v. Sebaginni.
  3. ↑ Evans 1967, p. 468.
  4. ↑ Barruol 1969, pp. 291–293.
  5. ↑ Talbert 2000, Map 17: Lugdunum.
  6. ↑ Barruol 1969, pp. 278–284.
  7. ↑ Rivet 1988, pp. 16, 286.

Bibliography

  • Barruol, Guy (1969). Les Peuples préromains du Sud-Est de la Gaule: étude de géographie historique. E. de Boccard. OCLC 3279201.
  • 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.
  • 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.