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The Nerusii were a Ligurian tribe living in the Alpes Maritimae during the Iron Age.

Name

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They are mentioned as Nerusi by Pliny (1st c. AD).[1]

Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel has proposed to interpret the name as Ner-usii ('the manly ones'), from the Proto-Indo-European root *ner- ('man').[2]

The anthroponym Nerusius is attested at Magliano and at Rusellae (CIL XI 2619). The ethnonym has also been compared with the deity Nerius of Néris-les-Bains (Allier).[3]

Geography

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The Nerusii appear near the end of the list of tribes on the Tropaeum Alpium, before the Velaunii and the Suetrii, without any precise geographical indication. Ptolemy, however, assigns their chief town as Vintium (Vence), which effectively defines the territory attributed to them as the area that later formed the civitas and then the diocese of Vence.[3] The former boundaries of the diocese are well established: to the east it followed the Var from its mouth to its junction with the Estéron; to the west the Loup, up to its source on the Audibergue mountain; and to the north it ran along the crests of the Thorenc and the Cheiron mountains. These early medieval limits already corresponded to those of the civitas Vintiensium in the Roman period and, earlier, of the territory of the Nerusii.[3]

History

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They are mentioned by Pliny the Elder as one of the Alpine tribes conquered by Rome in 16–15 BC, and whose name was engraved on the Tropaeum Alpium.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 3:20.
  2. ^ de Bernardo Stempel 2006, p. 46.
  3. ^ a b c Barruol 1969, pp. 368–369.

Primary sources

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  • Pliny (1938). Natural History. Loeb Classical Library. Translated by Rackham, H. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674993648. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)

Bibliography

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  • Barruol, Guy (1969). Les Peuples préromains du Sud-Est de la Gaule: étude de géographie historique. E. de Boccard. OCLC 3279201.
  • de Bernardo Stempel, Patrizia (2006). "From Ligury to Spain: Unaccented *yo > (y)e in Narbonensic votives ('gaulish' DEKANTEM), Hispanic coins ('iberian' -(sk)en) and some theonyms". Palaeohispanica. 6: 45–58. ISSN 1578-5386.


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Statielli

Intimilii Laevi Lapicini Libici Libui Ligauni Maielli Marici Mentovini Nearchi Nerusii Odiates Oratelli Oxybii Reii Sabates Salassi Salyes Segobrigii Soti Statielli

Ligures

Intimilii Laevi Lapicini Libici Libui Ligauni Maielli Marici Mentovini Nearchi Nerusii Odiates Oratelli Oxybii Reii Sabates Salassi Salyes Segobrigii Soti Statielli

Oxybii

Intimilii Laevi Lapicini Libici Libui Ligauni Maielli Marici Mentovini Nearchi Nerusii Odiates Oratelli Oxybii Reii Sabates Salassi Salyes Segobrigii Soti Statielli

Deciates

of Antipolis (modern Antibes). Their territory was located south of the Nerusii, southeast of the Ligauni, and either east or west of the Oxybii. The exact

Soti (tribe)

Intimilii Laevi Lapicini Libici Libui Ligauni Maielli Marici Mentovini Nearchi Nerusii Odiates Oratelli Oxybii Reii Sabates Salassi Salyes Segobrigii Soti Statielli

Libui

Intimilii Laevi Lapicini Libici Libui Ligauni Maielli Marici Mentovini Nearchi Nerusii Odiates Oratelli Oxybii Reii Sabates Salassi Salyes Segobrigii Soti Statielli

Genuates

Intimilii Laevi Lapicini Libici Libui Ligauni Maielli Marici Mentovini Nearchi Nerusii Odiates Oratelli Oxybii Reii Sabates Salassi Salyes Segobrigii Soti Statielli

Vesubiani

Vésubie. Their territory was located southeast of the Ecdinii, north of the Nerusii and Vediantii, and northwest of the Intimilii. According to A. L. F. Rivet