Venosten
The Venostes (German: Venosten ) were an Alpine tribe whose settlement area, together with the Vennonetes, was in the Roman province of Raetia , in today's Vinschgau . The name of the Vinschgau (Latin vallis Venusta , Italian Val Venosta ) goes back to the tribal name.
The Venostes are only mentioned in fourth place in the list of 16/15 BC. Known from the Alpine peoples defeated in the Augustan Alpine campaigns , handed down in the inscription of the Tropaeum Alpium in La Turbie (built 7/6 BC) and by Pliny .
Whether they belonged to the Celts or the Rhaetians was discussed, but due to a lack of sources it cannot be clarified.
literature
- Reimo Lunz: Venosten and Raeter. A historical-archaeological problem. Calliano 1981.
- 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 , p. 291.
- Gerhard Waldherr : Venostes. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12/2, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01487-8 , column 13 f ..
Individual evidence
- ↑ CIL 5, 7817
- ↑ Pliny, nat. 3, 136; 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.