The Roman Map of Britain Rate Corieltavorum Leicester, Leicestershire
Rate Corion
Eltauori
(R&C 92-93) next
Rate Rate
vars. Race Rache,
Rage Rage
(Ptolemy II
3 11) a polis of the Coritani (Corieltauui)
Ratas
(AI 4774
Iter vi)
Ratis (AI 4793
Iter viii)
Ratis (CIL
xvi 160)
A Ratis M(ilia Passuum) II (RIB 2244,
a milestone)
[C]ivitatis Corieltauuorom* (tile found at Tripontium)
C(ivitas) COR(i)EL(tauvorum) (Britannia
xxiv (1993)
318, lead sealing found at Thorpe
in the Glebe)
Leicester SK5804
RATAE CORIELTAUVORUM; LEICESTER; LEICESTER; LEICESTERSHIRE;
SETTLEMENT, IRON AGE SK 58 04 EHNMR-631558
*Tomlin, R S O 1983 'Non Coritani sed Corieltauvi', Antiq J, 63 (1983), 353-5.
*RIB II.5 2491.150 - a note in Britannia 2003 states that this should be taken as Corieltavi rather than Corieltauvi. Perhaps this eltavi is the same as Eltabo (R&C 2). I would guess el- represents salt, and that -tavo is the same as for Taw 'flow', perhaps another name for the Wash.
The
Antiquaries Journal v.82 (2002)
Does Corieltavi
Mean ‘Army of Many Rivers'? Building on recent evidence that the tribal name of the British
people of the Leicester region is Corieltavi, this paper suggests an
interpretation of their name as meaning ‘host of (the region of) many rivers'.