Cosuanetes

Celtic tribes in the foothills of the Alps around the birth of Christ (Cosuanetes to the left of the Vindelici)

The Cosuanetes , also Kosuanetes ( Latin Cosuanetes ) were a Celtic tribe that can possibly be counted among the Vindelikern . The Roman victory monument Tropaeum Alpium for the Augustan Alpine campaigns at today's La Turbie in the Maritime Alps is the name of the Cosuanetes in (uncertain) connection with the "Vindelicorum gentes quattuor" mentioned there . The location of their tribal area has not yet been precisely localized, but if the assignment to the Vindelikers is correct , they may have settled in the Alpine foothills , in the later Roman province of Raetia , south of the Isar and Würm (Amper) .

In Strabo ( Geographika 4, 6, 8) the tribe of the Cotuantii is mentioned as a Raetian tribe, which is otherwise unknown. Maybe it is a name variation or misspelling for Cosuanetes .

literature

Max Him : Cosuanetes. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV, 2, Stuttgart 1901, column 1675.

Individual evidence

↑ CIL 5, 7817 ; Jaroslav Šašel : To explain the inscription on the Tropaeum Alpium (Plin. Nat. III, 136-137, CIL V 7871). In: Ziva antika 22, 1972, pp. 135-144.
↑ Linus Brunner, Alfred Toth: The Rhaetian language - deciphered: Language and language history of the Räters. Buchhaus am Rösslitor, St. Gallen 1987, ISBN 978-3-908048-09-1 , p. 33.
↑ Max Spindler: Handbook of Bavarian History: Bd. The old Bavaria, the tribal duchy up to the end of the 12th century . CH Beck, Munich 1981, ISBN 978-3-406-07322-9 , pp. 67 ( google.ch [accessed on November 22, 2017]).

[1] CIL 5, 7817 ; Jaroslav Šašel : To explain the inscription on the Tropaeum Alpium (Plin. Nat. III, 136-137, CIL V 7871). In: Ziva antika 22, 1972, pp. 135-144.

[2] Linus Brunner, Alfred Toth: The Rhaetian language - deciphered: Language and language history of the Räters. Buchhaus am Rösslitor, St. Gallen 1987, ISBN 978-3-908048-09-1 , p. 33.

[3] Max Spindler: Handbook of Bavarian History: Bd. The old Bavaria, the tribal duchy up to the end of the 12th century . CH Beck, Munich 1981, ISBN 978-3-406-07322-9 , pp. 67 ( google.ch [accessed on November 22, 2017]).