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).[1][2]

The meaning of the name remains obscure. The first element, seba-, can be compared with the personal names Seboθθu, Sebosus, Sebosiana, and Sebbaudus.[3] The second component, -ginn-, may be Celtic, too.[2]

Geography

The Sebaginni lived in the middle valley of the Durance river, north of present-day Sisteron (Segustero).[4] Their territory was located south of the Avantici, east of the Vocontii, north of the Sogiontii, and west of the Edenates and Gallitae.[5]

They were probably part of the Vocontian confederation.[6][7]

References

  1. ^ Cicero. Pro P. Quinctio, 25:80.
  2. ^ a b 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.
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