# Medulli > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Medulli > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Medulli.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medulli > Source revision: 1335749565 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Gallic tribe}} The '''Medulli''' ([Gaulish](/source/Gaulish): ''Medulloi'') were a [Gallic](/source/Gauls) tribe dwelling in the upper valley of [Maurienne](/source/Maurienne), around present-day [Modane](/source/Modane) ([Savoie](/source/Savoie)), during the [Iron Age](/source/La_T%C3%A8ne_culture) and [Roman period](/source/Roman_period). == Name == They are named as ''Medulli'' by [Vitruvius](/source/Vitruvius) (in the [genitive](/source/genitive) case as ''Medullorum'', late 1st c. BC),[Vitruvius](/source/Vitruvius). ''De architectura'', [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/vitruvius-architecture/1931/pb_LCL280.169.xml 8:3:20]. ''Méd(o)ulloi'' (Μέδ<ο>υλλοι) by [Strabo](/source/Strabo) (early 1st c. AD),[Strabo](/source/Strabo). ''[Geōgraphiká](/source/Geographica)'', [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/strabo-geography/1917/pb_LCL050.273.xml 4:1:11], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/strabo-geography/1917/pb_LCL050.271.xml? 4:6:5]. ''Medulli'' by [Pliny](/source/Pliny_the_Elder) (1st c. AD),[Pliny](/source/Pliny_the_Elder). ''Naturalis Historia'', [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/pliny_elder-natural_history/1938/pb_LCL352.103.xml 3:20]. and as ''Medoúllous'' (Μεδούλλους) by [Ptolemy](/source/Ptolemy) (2nd c. AD).[Ptolemy](/source/Ptolemy). ''Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis'', 2:10:7.{{Harvnb|Falileyev|2010}}, s.v. ''Medulli''. The [ethnonym](/source/ethnonym) ''Medulli'' is a latinized form of [Gaulish](/source/Gaulish) ''Medulloi''. It is generally derived from the [Celtic](/source/Proto-Celtic_language) root ''medu''-, meaning '[mead](/source/mead), alcoholic drink' (cf. [Olr.](/source/Old_Irish) ''mid'', [MW](/source/Middle_Welsh). ''medd'', [OBret.](/source/Old_Breton) ''medot''), and thus may be translated as 'those who drink mead' or 'those inebriated by mead'. This interpretation is encouraged by the mention, in [Vitruvius](/source/Vitruvius)' ''[De architectura](/source/De_architectura)'', of a "kind of water" (''genus aquae'') drunk by the Medulli.{{Sfn|Delamarre|2003|p=222}} Alternatively, [Javier de Hoz](/source/Javier_de_Hoz) has proposed to interpret the name as 'those who lived in the middle', or 'in the border woods', by connecting it to the stem *''medhi''- ('middle').{{Sfn|de Hoz|2005|p=178}} == Geography == The Medulli dwelled in the upper [Maurienne](/source/Maurienne) valley, along the upper course of the [Arc](/source/Arc_(Savoie)) river, near the modern town of [Modane](/source/Modane) (Amonada).{{sfn|Prieur|1968|p=78}}{{sfn|Barruol|1969|p=|pp=334–337}}{{sfn|Dietz|2006}} Their territory was located east of the [Graioceli](/source/Graioceli) (themselves east of the [Vocontii](/source/Vocontii)), north of the [Brigianii](/source/Brigianii) and [Quariates](/source/Quariates), west of the [Segusini](/source/Segusini), and south of the [Ceutrones](/source/Ceutrones_(Alps)) (themselves south of the [Allobroges](/source/Allobroges)).{{Harvnb|Talbert|2000}}, Map 17: Lugdunum. They belonged to the tribes governed by [Cottius](/source/Cottius) in Alpes Taurinae and were later integrated into the province of [Alpes Cottiae](/source/Alpes_Cottiae).{{sfn|Dietz|2006}} == History == 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](/source/Tropaeum_Alpium).{{sfn|Dietz|2006}} They also appear on the [Arch of Susa](/source/Arch_of_Augustus_(Susa)), erected by [Cottius](/source/Cottius) in 9–8 BC.{{sfn|Barruol|1969|p=32}} According to [Vitruvius](/source/Vitruvius), they were particularly prone to suffer from [goitre](/source/goitre).{{sfn|Dietz|2006}} {{Blockquote|text=Among the Aquiculi in Italy and among the tribe of the Medulli in the Alps, there is a kind of water which causes goitre among those who drink it.|source={{harvnb|Vitruvius|1934}}, ''De Architectura'', [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/vitruvius-architecture/1931/pb_LCL280.169.xml 8:3:20].}} ==See also== * [Ceutrones](/source/Ceutrones_(Alps)) * [Graioceli](/source/Graioceli) * [Segusini](/source/Segusini) == References == {{Reflist}} === Primary sources === {{refbegin}} *{{Cite book|last=Pliny|title=Natural History|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1938|isbn=978-0674993648|series=Loeb Classical Library|translator-last=Rackham|translator-first=H.|author-link=Pliny the Elder}} *{{Cite book|last=Strabo|title=Geography|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1923|isbn=978-0674990562|series=Loeb Classical Library|translator-last=Jones|translator-first=Horace L.|author-link=Strabo}} *{{Cite book|last=Vitruvius|title=On Architecture|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1934|isbn=978-0674993099 |series=Loeb Classical Library|translator-last=Granger|translator-first=Frank|author-link=Vitruvius}} {{refend}} === Bibliography === {{refbegin}} *{{Cite book |last=Barruol |first=Guy |title=Les Peuples préromains du Sud-Est de la Gaule: étude de géographie historique |date=1969 |publisher=E. de Boccard |oclc=3279201 |author-link=Guy Barruol}} *{{Cite book |last=Delamarre |first=Xavier |title=Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental |year=2003 |publisher=Errance |isbn=9782877723695 |author-link=Xavier Delamarre}} *{{cite book |last=de Hoz |first=Javier |year=2005 |chapter=Ptolemy and the linguistic history of the Narbonensis |title=New approaches to Celtic place-names in Ptolemy's Geography |editor-last=de Hoz |editor-first=Javier |editor-last2=Luján |editor-first2=Eugenio R. |editor-last3=Sims-Williams |editor-first3=Patrick |publisher=Ediciones Clásicas |pages=173–188 |isbn=978-8478825721 |author-link=Javier de Hoz}} *{{Cite journal |last=Dietz |first=Karlheinz |date=2006 |title=Medulli |journal=Brill's New Pauly |doi=10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e728780}} *{{Cite book |last=Falileyev |first=Alexander |title=Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-names: A Celtic Companion to the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World |publisher=CMCS |year=2010 |isbn=978-0955718236}} *{{Cite book |last=Prieur |first=Jean |title=La province romaine des Alpes Cottiennes |date=1968 |publisher=Impr. R. Gauthier |oclc=834310867}} *{{Cite book |last=Talbert |first=Richard J. A. |title=Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-0691031699 |author-link=Richard Talbert}} {{refend}} == Further reading == * L. Comby 1977, ''Histoire des Savoyards'', Nathan {{Gallic peoples}} {{Authority control}} Category:Historical Celtic peoples Category:Gauls Category:Tribes in pre-Roman Gaul Category:History of Savoy --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Medulli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medulli) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medulli?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.