Pinpedunni
Ancient people of Aquitania
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Name
The people are named once, in Pliny's list of the peoples of Aquitania, among a string of small Pyrenean groups together with the Lassunni, the Vellates and the Toruates.[3][1] The manuscripts give the name as Pinpedunni, with the variants Pinpedumni and Pindedunni.[1]
Paul-Marie Duval took the name to contain the Celtic word for 'five' (pimpe) attached to dunum ('stronghold'), yielding a sense such as 'the five strongholds'.[1] Jean-Pierre Bost counts the Pinpedunni among the groups of Celtic origin that had moved in a region inhabited by Aquitani, alongside the Tarbelli.[2]
Geography
Duval placed the Pinpedunni among the peoples of the list that cannot be located.[4] Following Camille Jullian's reading, he suggested a position south of Cambo, in the country rising towards the pass of Roncevaux.[1] It would set them in what is now the Basque Country, within a body of several other small mountain groups later governed from Dax.[5]