Avatici

The Avatici were a Gallic tribe who inhabited south-eastern Gaul during the Roman period. According to Pliny, they lived around the town of Maritima — the location of which is no longer known, but was presumably on the coast — in the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis.[1]

Name

They are named Au̓atilō͂n (Αὐατιλῶν; var. Au̓atikō͂n Αὐατικῶν) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD),[2] and an oppidum Maritima Avaticorum is mentioned by Pliny (1st c. AD) and Pomponius Mela (mid-1st c. AD).[3][4][5]

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References
  1. Sir William Smith (1873). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. J. Murray. p. 276.
  2. Ptolemy. Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis, 2:10:5
  3. Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 3:34
  4. Pomponius Mela. De situ orbis, 2:78
  5. Falileyev 2010, p. entry xxx.

Bibliography
  • Falileyev, Alexander (2010). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-names: A Celtic Companion to the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. CMCS. ISBN 978-0955718236.

See also
  • Gaul
  • List of peoples of Gaul
  • List of Celtic tribes
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