Pictones
Sign in to savethumb|281x281px|Pictonian stater (1st c. BC). The Pictones were a Gallic tribe dwelling south of the Loire river, in the modern departments of Vendée, Deux-Sèvres and Vienne, during the Iron Age and Roman period.
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thumb|281x281px|Pictonian stater (1st c. BC). The Pictones were a Gallic tribe dwelling south of the Loire river, in the modern departments of Vendée, Deux-Sèvres and Vienne, during the Iron Age and Roman period.
== Name == They are mentioned as Pictonibus and Pictones by Julius Caesar (mid-1st c. BC), Piktónōn (Πικτόνων) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), Pictones by Pliny the Elder (1st c. AD), Píktones (Πίκτονες; var. πήκτωνες, πήκτονες, πίκτωνες) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD), and as Pictonici by Ausonius (4th c. AD). They were also known as Pictavi in an inscription (2nd c. AD), the Notitia Galliarum (4th c. AD) and by Ammianus Marcellinus (4th c. AD).
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