Tricassen
Tricassen ( Latin Tricasses , Tricassi ) was the name of a Celtic tribe in Gaul , they were a client tribe of the Lingons . Their settlement area was in what is now the Aube department in northeastern France , on the upper Seine and Aube . Their main town was Troyes , the former Augustobona , which derives its current name from the Tricassen.
According to Birkhan , the Gallic name ending -casses is to be interpreted as “the curly, hairy ones” (for example: Bodiocasses , “the blond curly ones”). In Maier this derivative is also mentioned as possible (see below irish buidechas , "blond curly"). The name Tricasses could suggest a flashy, perhaps three-part (?) Hairstyle (with tri often used as a reinforcing element).
See also
literature
- Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 .
- Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .
- Harry Mountain: The Celtic Encyclopedia . In: Celtic Encyclopedia Series . tape 1 . Universal-Publishers, 1998, ISBN 1-58112-890-8 , pp. 234–235 (English, 280 pp., Limited preview in Google Book Search).
- Laurent Denajar: Carte archéologique de la Gaule: 10th Aube . In: Carte archéologique de la Gaule . tape 10 . Les Editions de la MSH, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-87754-093-6 , pp. 141–167 (French, 704 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
Individual evidence
- ↑ CIL : C (aio) Catul [l] io / Decimino / Tuti Catullin [i] fil (io) / Tricassin (o) omnib (us) / honorib (us) ap [u] d su / os funct (o) sac [e] rd (oti) / ad templ (um) Rom (ae) et / Augg [[g (ustorum)]] III prov (inciae) Gall (iae) // Iunia [e] / Domitiol [ ae] / uxori [C (ai)] / Catullus [i] / Decimin [i] // tres pr [ov (inciae) Galliae ; today in the Musée gallo-romain de Fourvière ( XIII, 1691Lyon )
- ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 300; Bernhard Maier: Lexicon of the Celtic religion and culture . P. 320.
- ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 834, note 1.
- ↑ Bernhard Maier: Small lexicon of names and words of Celtic origin. CH Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-49470-6 , p. 71.
- ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Pp. 492, 493 note 1.