Elusates

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Aquitaine tribes
Campaign in Aquitaine 56 BC Chr.
Elusatic silver coin

The elusates ( Latin Elusates ) were a presumably Celtic tribe , whose residence in the northeast of the later Roman province of Gallia Aquitania was. Their main town was Elusa , today's Eauze in the Gers department .

During the Gallic War , a sub-general of Caesar , the Legate Publius Licinius Crassus , marched in 56 BC. In Aquitaine (the later Roman province of Novempopulana ). After some victories of the Romans, most of the Aquitaine tribes surrendered ; to be named the Tarbeller , bigerriones , Ptianier , Vasaten (also Vocaten ) Tarusaten , elusates, Gater , ausci , Garumner , Sibulaten and Cocosaten( De bello Gallico III 27). Whether the names, including those of the Elusates , are clearly Celtic cannot be said with certainty. Some modern authors include some of the Celtiberians .

The minting of silver coins by the Elusaten is known. A particularly well-preserved piece dates from the 1st century BC. BC, today in the Cabinet des Médailles of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris (see illustration). Other coins are on display in the Musée des Beaux-Arts (Lyon) . A Pegasus is often depicted on the objects .

literature

  • Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. 2nd, corrected and enlarged edition. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 .
  • Harry Mountain: The Celtic Encyclopedia, Volume 5 . Universal Publishers, 1998, ISBN 1-58112-894-0 , pp. 1241 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Carl Waldman, Catherine Mason: Encyclopedia of European Peoples (=  Facts on File library of world history ). Infobase Publishing, New York 2006, ISBN 1-4381-2918-1 , pp. 225 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gaius Iulius Caesar: Commentarii de bello Gallico III 27: Maxima Pars Aqutaniae sese Crasso dedit: Tarbelli, Bigerriones, Ptianii, Vocates, Tarusates, Elusates, gates, Ausci, Garumni, Sibulates, Cocosates: paucae ultimae nationes su , hoc facere neglexerunt.
  2. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 204.
  3. ↑ Peter La Baume: Celtic coins: a breviary . Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1960, p. 14, 20 ( limited preview in Google Book search).