Lepontii
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Gallia Transpadana
Ligurians.[6]
The chief towns of the Lepontii were Oscela, now
.A map of Rhaetia shows the location of the Lepontic territory, in the south-western corner of Rhaetia. The area to the south, including what was to become the Insubrian capital Mediolanum (modern Milan), was Etruscan around 600-500 BC, when the Lepontii began writing tombstone inscriptions in their alphabet, one of several Etruscan-derived alphabets in the Rhaetian territory.
See also
- Lepontic language
- Canegrate culture
- Celts in the Alps and Po Valley
- Cisalpine Gaulish
- Golasecca culture
- Ancient peoples of Italy
Notes
- .
A Celtic tribe in the Central Alps
- ISBN 978-1-85109-440-0
- ^ Percivaldi, Elena (2003). I Celti: una civiltà europea. Firenze. p. 22.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ M. Lejeune, Lepontica, Parigi 1971.
- ISBN 978-88-425-4017-5.
- ^ The Cambridge Ancient History: Plates, New ed. University Press. 1988. p. 718.
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