Tricassen

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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).

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Individual evidence

  1. CIL XIII, 1691 : 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 ( Lyon )
  2. Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 300; Bernhard Maier: Lexicon of the Celtic religion and culture . P. 320.
  3. Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 834, note 1.
  4. Bernhard Maier: Small lexicon of names and words of Celtic origin. CH Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-49470-6 , p. 71.
  5. Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Pp. 492, 493 note 1.