Meduller

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The Meduller ( Latin Medulli ) were a Celtic tribe in the Alps . Its name is said to be derived from medu (" mead "). Their settlement area was in Maurienne between Tarentaise (in Savoy ) and the Aosta Valley . They were known for metalworking.

They are mentioned by Claudius Ptolemy together with five other tribes. The Tropaeum Alpium in today's La Turbie (built 7/6 BC) names the Meduller in the list of 16/15 BC. In the Augustan Alpine campaigns defeated Alpine peoples.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ptolemy: Geographike Hyphegesis 2, 13, 2.
  2. ↑ CIL 5, 7817 ; Jaroslav Šašel : To explain the inscription on the Tropaeum Alpium (Plin. Nat. 3, 136-137, CIL V 7871). In: Ziva antika  22, 1972, pp. 135-144.