The Sebaginni were a Gallic tribe dwelling in the middle Durance valley during the Iron Age.
Name They are mentioned as Sebaginnos (var. -gninos, Sabagnanos) by Cicero (early 1st c. BC).Cicero. Pro P. Quinctio, 25:80., s.v. Sebaginni.
The meaning of the name remains obscure. The first element, seba-, can be compared with the personal names Seboθθu, Sebosus, Sebosiana, and Sebbaudus. The second component, -ginn-, may be Celtic, too.
Geography The Sebaginni lived in the middle valley of the Durance river, north of present-day Sisteron (Segustero). The Barrington Atlas locates their territory south of the Avantici, east of the Vocontii, north of the Sogiontii, and west of the Edenates and Gallitae., Map 17: Lugdunum.
They were probably part of the Vocontian confederation.
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