Savincates

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

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