The Savincates were a Gallic tribe dwelling in the Ubaye valley, around present-day Faucon-de-Barcelonnette in the Alpes Maritimae, during the Iron Age.

Name

They are mentioned as Savincatium on two inscriptions.[1][2]

The meaning of the ethnonym remains obscure.[2] The toponym Savines has been traditionally compared with Savincates and associated with their chief town,[3] although this has been criticized by Guy Barruol.[4]

Geography

The Savincates dwelled south of the Guil valley, in the Ubaye valley, around the town of Rigomagus (modern Faucon-de-Barcelonnette).[4] Their territory was located west of the Veneni, Soti, and Tyrii, south of the Caturiges, east of the Avantici and Adanates, and north of the Gallitae, Eguiturii, and Nemeturii.[5]

The civitas Rigomagensis, mentioned in 400 AD in the Notitia Galliarum, extended to all the Ubaye valley. In the 8th–9th centuries, it designated a pagus (Rigomagensis) or a vallis (Reumagensis), which corresponded to the middle Ubaye valley.[6]

History

They appear on the Arch of Susa, erected by Cottius in 9–8 BC.[7]

References

  1. ^ CIL 12:80, 5:7231.
  2. ^ a b Falileyev 2010, s.v. Savincates.
  3. ^ Prieur 1968, p. 79.
  4. ^ a b Barruol 1969, pp. 356–357.
  5. ^ Talbert 2000, Map 17: Lugdunum.
  6. ^ Barruol 2004, p. 419.
  7. ^ Barruol 1969, p. 32.

Bibliography

  • Barruol, Guy (1969). Les Peuples préromains du Sud-Est de la Gaule: étude de géographie historique. E. de Boccard. OCLC 3279201.
  • Barruol, Guy (2004). "Faucon-de-Barcelonnette / Rigomagus (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)". Supplément à la Revue archéologique du centre de la France. 25 (1): 419–421. ISSN 1951-6207.
  • 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.
  • Prieur, Jean (1968). La province romaine des Alpes Cottiennes. Impr. R. Gauthier. OCLC 834310867.
  • Talbert, Richard J. A. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691031699.

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