Treveri
The Treveri (
Although early adopters of Roman
.Under
Among the surviving legacies of the ancient Treveri are Moselle wine from Luxembourg and Germany (introduced during Roman times)[16] and the many Roman monuments of Trier and its surroundings, including neighbouring Luxembourg.[17]
Three Roman roads, very important for their role in transregional trade and military deployment capability, went through the territory of the Treveri:
- the first came from the south, connected Divodurum (Metz, France) and Ricciacus (Dalheim, Luxembourg) with Augusta Treverorum (Trier, Germany) and went further to the Rhine river in the northeast, the border of the Roman Empire
- the second came from the southwest and connected Durocortorum (Reims, France) with Andethana (Niederanven, Luxembourg) and Augusta Treverorum
- the third went through the Ardennes in present-day Belgium and Luxembourg and connected Durocortorum to the major city and garrison of Colonia Agrippinensis (Cologne/Köln, Germany) on the Rhine river.[18]
Name
Attestations
They are mentioned as Treveri by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC), Pliny (1st c. AD) and Tacitus (early 2nd c. AD),[19][20][21] Trēoúēroi (Τρηούηροι) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD),[22] Tríbēroi (Τρίβηροι) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD),[23] Trēouḗrōn (Τρηουήρων) by Cassius Dio (3rd c. AD),[24] Treuerorum (gen.) by Orosius (early 5th c. AD),[25] and as Triberorum in the Notitia Dignitatum (5th c. AD).[26][27] The variant Treberi also appears in Pliny, and few highly deviant variant forms are also attested as Trēoũsgroi (Τρηου̃σγροι) in Strabo or Triḗrōn (Τριήρων) in Cassius Dio.[27]
The first syllable is shown long and stressed (Trēverī) in Latin dictionaries,[28] thus giving the Classical Latin pronunciation [ˈtreːwɛriː].
Etymology
The
The city of Trier, attested 1st c. AD as Treueris Augusta and on inscriptions as Augusta Trēvērorum (Treuiris in 1065), is named after the tribe.[32][27]
Geography
Territory
In the time of Julius Caesar their territory extended as far as the Rhine north of the Triboci;[33] across the Rhine from them lived the Ubii. Caesar mentions that the Segni and the Condrusi lived between the Treveri and the Eburones, and that the Condrusii and Eburones were clients of the Treveri.[34] Caesar bridged the Rhine in the territory of the Treveri.[10][35] They were bordered on the northwest by the Belgic Tungri (living where the Germani cisrhenani had lived in the time of Caesar and, according to Tacitus, the same people), on the southwest by the Remi, and on the north, beyond the Ardennes and Eifel, by the Eburones. To the south their neighbours were the Mediomatrici[36]
Later the Vangiones and Nemetes, whom ancient sources identify as Germanic, would settle to the east of the Treveri along the Rhine;[37] thereafter, Treveran territory in present-day Germany was probably similar to that which afterwards became the Diocese of Trier.[38] In addition to this area which is formed mainly by the northern part of the Moselle river valley and the neighbouring Eifel region, the Treveri populated also the area of the present-day Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the major part of the adjacent Belgian Province of Luxembourg.[39] The Rhine valley was removed from Treveran authority with the formation of the province of Germania Superior in the 80s CE.[40] The valley of the Ahr would have marked their northern boundary.
Settlements
Colonia Augusta Treverorum (now
The transfer of their activities to Trier followed the construction of
The 4th-century poet Ausonius lived in Trier under the Gratian's patronage; he is most famous for his poem Mosella, evoking life and scenery along the Treveri's arterial river.[15]
Language and ethnicity
Caesar is not explicit in De Bello Gallico about whether the Treveri are to be considered to belong to Gallia Celtica or Gallia Belgica, although the former hypothesis enjoys some favour.[38] Writing about a century after Caesar, Pomponius Mela identifies the Treveri as the "most renowned" of the Belgae[48] (not to be confounded with the modern-day Belgians).
According to the Roman consul Aulus Hirtius in the 1st century BCE, the Treveri differed little from Germanic peoples in their manner of life and "savage" behaviour.[49] The Treveri boasted of their Germanic origin, according to Tacitus, in order to distance themselves from "Gallic laziness" (inertia Gallorum). But Tacitus does not include them with the Vangiones, Triboci or Nemetes as "tribes unquestionably German".[7] The presence of hall villas of the same type as found in indisputably Germanic territory in northern Germany, alongside Celtic types of villas, corroborates the idea that they had both Celtic and Germanic affinities.[50]
Strabo says that their Nervian and Tribocan neighbours were Germanic peoples who by that point had settled on the left bank of the Rhine, while the Treveri are implied to be Gaulish.[35]
Very few personal names among the Treveri are of Germanic origin; instead, they are generally Celtic or Latin. Certain distinctively Treveran names are apparently none of the three and may represent a pre-Celtic stratum, according to Wightman (she gives Ibliomarus, Cletussto and Argaippo as examples).[53]
After the Roman conquest, Latin was used extensively by the Treveri for public and official purposes.[54]
Politics and military
Originally the oppida of the Titelberg, Wallendorf, Kastel, Otzenhausen and the Martberg were roughly equal in significance; however, sometime between 100 and 80 BCE, the Titelberg experienced an upsurge of growth which made it "the central oppidum of the Treveri".[55] A large open space in the central square of the Titelberg which would have been used for public meetings of a religious or political nature during the 1st century BCE. By the time of Caesar's invasion, the Treveri seemed to have adopted an oligarchic system of government.[56]
The Treveri had a strong cavalry and infantry, and during the Gallic Wars would provide Julius Caesar with his best cavalry.[57] Under their leader Cingetorix, the Treveri served as Roman auxiliaries. However, their loyalties began to change in 54 BCE under the influence of Cingetorix' rival Indutiomarus.[58] According to Caesar, Indutiomarus instigated the revolt of the Eburones under Ambiorix that year and led the Treveri in joining the revolt and enticing Germanic tribes to attack the Romans.[59] The Romans under Titus Labienus killed Indutiomarus and then put down the Treveran revolt; afterwards, Indutiomarus' relatives crossed the Rhine to settle among the Germanic tribes.[60] The Treveri remained neutral during the revolt of Vercingetorix, and were attacked again by Labienus after it.[61] On the whole, the Treveri were more successful than most Gallic tribes in cooperating with the Romans. They probably emerged from the Gallic Wars with the status of a free civitas exempt from tribute.[62]
In 30–29 BCE, a revolt of the Treveri was suppressed by Marcus Nonius Gallus, and the Titelberg was occupied by a garrison of the Roman army.
Following the reorganisation of the
During the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius and Claudius, and particularly when Drusus and Germanicus were active in Gaul, Augusta Treverorum rose to considerable importance as a base and supply centre for campaigns in Germany. The city was endowed with an amphitheatre, baths, and other amenities,[64] and for a while Germanicus' family lived in the city.[12] Pliny the Elder reports that Germanicus' son, the future emperor Gaius (Caligula), was born "among the Treveri, at the village of Ambiatinus, above Confluentes (Koblenz)", but Suetonius notes that this birthplace was disputed by other sources.[65]
A faction of Treveri, led by
More serious was the revolt that began with Civilis' Batavian insurrection during the Year of the Four Emperors. In 70, the Treveri under Julius Classicus and Julius Tutor and the Lingones under Julius Sabinus joined the Batavian rebellion and declared Sabinus as Caesar.[68] The revolt was quashed, and more than a hundred rebel Treveran noblemen fled across the Rhine to join their Germanic allies; in the assessment of historian Jeannot Metzler, this event marks the end of aristocratic Treveran cavalry service in the Roman army, the rise of the local bourgeoisie, and the beginnings of "a second thrust of Romanization".[69] Camille Jullian attributes to this rebellion the promotion of Durocortorum Remorum (Reims), capital of the perennially loyal Remi, at the expense of the Treveri.[64] By the 2nd and 3rd centuries, representatives of the old élite bearing the nomen Julius had practically disappeared, and a new élite arose to take their place; these would have originated mainly from the indigenous middle class, according to Wightman.[70]
The Treveri suffered from their proximity to the Rhine frontier during the
Meanwhile, Augusta Treverorum was becoming an urban centre of the first importance, overtaking even Lugdunum (
From 285 to 395, Augusta Treverorum was one of the residences of the
Religion
The Treveri were originally
During the Roman period, Lenus Mars (or Mars
The Altbachtal complex has yielded a wealth of inscriptions and the remains of a theatre and over a dozen temples or shrines, mostly Romano-Celtic
In the 4th century, Christianity rose to prominence in Augusta Treverorum. The city became the seat of a Christian
Material culture
The territory of the Treveri had formed part of the Hunsrück-Eifel culture, covering the Hallstatt D and La Tène A-B periods (from 600 to 250 BCE).[92]
During the century from 250 to 150 BCE, the area between the Rhine and the Meuse underwent a drastic population restructuring as some crisis forced most signs of inhabitation onto the heights of the Hunsrück. Following this crisis, population returned to the lowlands and it is possible to speak with confidence of the Treveri by name. Much of the Treveran countryside seems to have been organized into rural settlements by the end of the 2nd century BCE, and this organization persisted into Roman times.[2]
Even before Roman times, the Treveri had developed trade, agriculture and metal-working. They had adopted a money-based economy based upon silver coins, aligned with the Roman denarius, along with cheaper bronze or bronze-lead coins. Trade goods made their way to the Treveri from Etruria and the Greek world; monetary evidence suggests strong trade links with the neighbouring Remi. Iron ore deposits in Treveran territory were heavily worked and formed part of the basis for the area's wealth.[93]
Before and for some time after the Roman conquest, Treveran nobles were buried in chamber tombs which were covered with tumuli and filled with sumptuous goods including imported amphorae, weaponry and andirons.[56] By the 2nd century CE, wealthy Treveri were building elaborate funerary monuments such as the World Heritage-listed Igel Column, or the sculpted grave-stones found at Arlon, Neumagen and Buzenol, all of which depict the deceased's livelihood and/or interests during life. As cremation had become more common under Roman rule, gravestones often had special niches to receive urns of ashes as well as grave-goods. Roman-era grave-goods included the remains of animals used as food (particularly pigs and birds), coins, amphorae, pottery, glassware, jewellery and scissors. Burial replaced cremation again in the late 3rd century.[94]
The Treveri adapted readily to Roman civilization, adopting certain Mediterranean practices in cuisine, clothing, and decorative arts starting as early as the Roman occupation of the Titelberg in 30 BCE.
Treveran villa architecture shows both coexistence and mixture of typically Gallic and Germanic traits. In some villas, such as at Otrang and Echternach, small rooms opened onto a large central hall, rather than onto the front verandah as in most places in Gaul; this arrangement has been considered typically ‘Germanic’, and may reflect a social structure in which extended families and clients all lived in a patron's home. On the other hand, typically ‘Gaulish’ villas are also found in Treveran territory.[50]
List of Treveri
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See also
Notes
- ISBN 9780191735257. Retrieved January 26, 2020.
Treveri, a Celtic people in the Moselle basin
- ^ a b Metzler (2003), p. 35.
- ^ Wightman (1970), pp. 250–253.
- ^ Wightman (1970), pp. 21–23.
- ^ a b Wightman (1970), p. 37.
- ^ Wightman (1970), p. 19.
- ^ a b Tacitus writes, "The Treveri and Nervii are even eager in their claims of a German origin, thinking that the glory of this descent distinguishes them from the uniform level of Gallic effeminacy." Germania XXVIII.
- ISBN 1438129181.
- ^ a b Woolf (1998), p. 21.
- ^ a b c Caesar, de Bello Gallico.
- ^ Tacitus, Histories.
- ^ a b Tacitus, Annales I:40–41.
- ^ a b Metzler (2003), p. 62.
- ^ a b Wightman (1970), p. 110.
- ^ a b c d e f Eberhard Zahn (n.d.). Trèves : Histoire et Curiosités. Cusanus-Verlag Trier. (in French)
- ^ Wightman (1970), p. 189.
- ^ Jullian (1892), p. 296, remarks, "Seeing all these ruins, still superb today, one senses the supreme effort of the Roman world at the gates of barbarism" (A voir aujourd’hui toutes ces ruines encore superbes, on sent le suprême effort du monde romain à la porte de la barbarie).
- ^ Thill (1973), pp. 77–78.
- ^ Caesar. Commentarii de Bello Gallico, 1:37
- ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 4:6
- ^ Tacitus. Historiae, 1:53
- ^ Strabo. Geōgraphiká, 4:3:4
- ^ Ptolemy. Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis, 2:9:7
- ^ Cassius Dio. Rhōmaïkḕ Historía, XXXIX:47
- ^ Orosius. Historiae Adversus Paganos
- ^ Notitia Dignitatum. oc 9, 37 and 38; 11, 35, 44, 77
- ^ a b c d Falileyev 2010, s.v. Treveri and Col. Augusta Treverorum.
- ,
- ^ Delamarre (2003), p. 301.
- ^ a b Zimmer (2006), p. 174.
- ^ Delamarre (2003), pp. 259–260, 301.
- ^ Gysseling (1960), p. 977.
- ^ Caesar, B.G. III:11, IV:3, IV:10.
- ^ Caesar, B.G. IV:6, VI:32.
- ^ a b Strabo. IV:3, paragraph 3.
- ^ Talbert 2000, Map 11: Sequana-Rhenus.
- ^ Pliny IV.5
- ^ a b George Long. "Treveri". In William Smith (ed., 1854) Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography.
- ^ Thill (1973), pp. 54–55.
- ^ a b c Metzler (2003), p. 61.
- ^ a b c Binsfeld (2012).
- ^ Elizabeth Hamilton. The Celts and Urbanization – the Enduring Puzzle of the Oppida Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 21 November 2007.
- ^ Wightman (1970), p. 135.
- ^ Metzler (2003), pp. 36–37.
- ^ Wightman (1970), pp. 124–125.
- ^ Wightman (1970), p. 127.
- ^ Metzler (2003), p. 43, summarizing Caesar, B.G. IV:6, II:4.
- ^ Pomponius Mela (c. 43 AD). De Situ Orbis, III:2. Archived 2008-02-08 at the Wayback Machine The term quoted is "clarissimi". Of course, by this stage, the administrative boundaries of Gallia Belgica had been fixed and did include the Treveri.
- ^ Aulus Hirtius. "Book VIII." In Caesar, B.G. VIII:25.
- ^ a b King (1990), pp. 153–155.
- ^ Jerome writes, Galatas excepto sermone Graeco, quo omnis oriens loquitur, propriam linguam eamdem pene habere quam Treviros ("That the Galatians, apart from the Greek language, which they speak just like the rest of the Orient, have their own language, which is almost the same as the Treverans'"), in Migne, Patrologia Latina 26, 382.
- ISBN 3-7001-2609-3. p. 301. (in German)
- ^ Wightman (1970), pp. 20, 51.
- ^ In the Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby, some eleven hundred Latin inscriptions are recorded for the city of Augusta Treverorum alone.
- ^ Metzler (2003), "oppidum central des Trévires", p. 38.
- ^ a b c Metzler (2003), p. 41.
- ^ Caesar, B.G. II:24, V:3.
- ^ Caesar, B.G. V:2.
- ^ Caesar, B.G. V:47, 55.
- ^ Caesar, B.G. VI:8.
- ^ Caesar, B.G. VI:63, VIII:45.
- ^ Metzler (2003), p. 44.
- ^ a b Metzler (2003), p. 45.
- ^ a b Jullian (1892), p. 293.
- De Vita Caesarum. IV:8.
- ^ Tacitus, Annales III:40–42.
- ^ Metzler (2003), p. 58.
- ^ Jona Lendering (2002). "Julius Sabinus". Livius.org: Articles on ancient history. Retrieved 2015-12-09.
- ^ Metzler (2003), "une deuxième poussée de romanisation", p. 60.
- ^ Wightman (1970), p. 51.
- ^ Metzler (2003), "La grande majorité des domaines agricoles restent en friche et ne seront plus jamais reconstruits", p. 62.
- ^ Heinen (1985), pp. 211–265.
- ^ Metzler (2003), p. 65.
- ]).
- ^ ISBN 2-87772-200-7. (in French)
- ISBN 2-87772-228-7. (in French)
- ^ Jean-Jacques Hatt, Mythes et dieux de la Gaule, tome 2 (unfinished manuscript, posthumously published online Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 29 November 2006), "font figure de pilotes pour la conservation des traditions indigènes celtiques et pré-celtiques", p. 11.
- ^ Derks (1998), p. 96: "For these reasons, Lenus Mars is rightly considered the main god of the Treveri."
- ^ Derks (1998), p. 98.
- ^ Wightman (1970), p. 209.
- ^ Metzler (2003), p. 51.
- ^ Wightman (1970), pp. 215–218, 220, 223–224.
- ^ Kuhnen et al. (1996), pp. 211–214.
- ^ Kuhnen et al. (1996), pp. 217–221.
- ^ AE 1921:50.
- ^ Kuhnen et al. (1996), pp. 222–225.
- ^ Latin: in honorem domus divinae, attested in dozens of inscriptions from the Treveran territory. AE 1929:174 is one example.
- ^ Heinen (1985), pp. 327–347.
- ^ King (1990), pp. 190–193.
- ^ Wightman (1970), p. 229.
- ISBN 9781107023369.
- ^ Metzler (2003), pp. 34–36.
- ^ Metzler (2003), p. 42.
- ^ Wightman (1970), pp. 148–150, 244–248.
- ^ Metzler (2003), p. 46.
- ^ King (1990), pp. 100–101.
- ^ Woolf (1998), p. 134.
- ^ King (1990), pp. 129–130.
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- Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus (c. 387), Comentarii in Epistolam ad Galatos.
- C. Plinius Secundus (c. 77–79), Naturalis historia.
- Strabo (7 BCE–23 CE), Geographica.
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- _____ (c. 98 CE), Germania (available on Wikisource).
- _____ (c. 105 CE), Historiae (available on Wikisource).
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Further reading
- Aber, James S. (2004). Volcanism of the Eifel, Germany Region. Emporia, Kansas, USA: Emporia State University. Archived 2016-03-01 at the Wayback Machine
- Jullian, Camille (1892). Gallia : Tableau sommaire de la Gaule sous la domination romaine (in French). Paris: Librairie Hachette.