The Tricornenses of Tricornum (modern
Ritopek) were a Romanized
Thraco-
Celtic[1][2] artificially[3] created community by the Romans that replaced the Celtic
Celegeri.[4] The inhabitants of Tricornum were Celtic and Thracian, attested by epigraphic sources.[1] After 6 AD, the Tricornenses were one of the four units of
Upper Moesia alongside the
Dardani,
Moesi and Picenses.[5] The ceremonial parade armour found at Ritopek belonged to a Tricornian soldier of
Legio VII Claudia, dating to AD 258.[1]
^The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. 10: The Augustan Empire, 43 BC-AD 69 (Volume 10) by
Alan Bowman,
Edward Champlin, and
Andrew Lintott, 1996, p. 580, "...Danubian and Balkan provinces Tricornenses of Tricornium (Ritopek) replaced the Celegeri, the Picensii of Pincum..."
^Landscapes of Change: Rural Evolutions in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Late Antique & Early Medieval Studies) by Neil Christie, 2004, p. 226, "Some were new, artificial creations (Timachi, Tricornenses, Picenses); others have names familiar from the pre-Roman period..."
The Tricornenses of Tricornum (modern
Ritopek) were a Romanized
Thraco-
Celtic[1][2] artificially[3] created community by the Romans that replaced the Celtic
Celegeri.[4] The inhabitants of Tricornum were Celtic and Thracian, attested by epigraphic sources.[1] After 6 AD, the Tricornenses were one of the four units of
Upper Moesia alongside the
Dardani,
Moesi and Picenses.[5] The ceremonial parade armour found at Ritopek belonged to a Tricornian soldier of
Legio VII Claudia, dating to AD 258.[1]
^The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. 10: The Augustan Empire, 43 BC-AD 69 (Volume 10) by
Alan Bowman,
Edward Champlin, and
Andrew Lintott, 1996, p. 580, "...Danubian and Balkan provinces Tricornenses of Tricornium (Ritopek) replaced the Celegeri, the Picensii of Pincum..."
^Landscapes of Change: Rural Evolutions in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Late Antique & Early Medieval Studies) by Neil Christie, 2004, p. 226, "Some were new, artificial creations (Timachi, Tricornenses, Picenses); others have names familiar from the pre-Roman period..."
