Silvanectes
The Silvanectes (or Sulbanectes) were a small Belgic tribe dwelling around present-day Senlis (Oise) during the Roman period.
Name
[edit | edit source]Attestations
[edit | edit source]They are mentioned as Ulmanectes by Pliny (1st c. AD),[1] as Soubánektoi (Greek: Σουβάνεκτοι) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD),[2] and as Siluanectas in the Notitia Dignitatum (5th c. AD).[3][4]
The Silvanectes are also attested under the name Sulbanectes in an inscription,[5] and their capital was mentioned as civitas Sulbanectium in 48 AD.[6]
Etymology
[edit | edit source]The etymology of the ethnonym remains unclear. It could be a Latinized form of Gaulish *Seluanecti (from seluā- 'possession, property' > 'herd'; cf. Old Irish selb 'property, possession', Welsh ar helw 'in possession of'), corrupted under the influence of Latin silva ('forest').[7] A comparison with Old Irish sulbair ('eloquent') has also been proposed.[6]
The city of Senlis, attested ca. 400 AD as civitas Silvanectum ('civitas of the Silvanectes', Sinleti in the 6th c., Senliz in 1211) is named after the Gallic tribe.[6]
Geography
[edit | edit source]The Silvanectes dwelled southwest of the Suessionnes, near the Meldi and the Bellovaci.[5] Their small territory, a depression surrounded by wooded heights, could be easily dominated by the more powerful Bellovaci, to which they were probably tributary.[5]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 4:106.
- ^ Ptolemy. Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis, 2:9:6.
- ^ Notitia Dignitatum, oc 42:42.
- ^ Falileyev 2010, s.v. Silvanectes.
- ^ a b c Wightman 1985, p. 27.
- ^ a b c Nègre 1990, p. 157.
- ^ Delamarre 2003, p. 270.
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