Attacori
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Attacori was a tribe of Seres (Siberia) mentioned by Pliny.[1]
Variants
Jat Places Namesake
- Uttarakuru = Attacori (Pliny.vi.20).
- Attak = Attacori (Pliny.vi.20). Attak or Attock is a city and district in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
Mention by Pliny
Pliny[2] mentions The Seres.... The first river that is known in their territory is the Psitharas,9 next to that the Cambari, and the third the Laros; after which we come to the Promontory of Chryse,10 the Gulf of Cynaba, the river Atianos, and the nation of the Attacori on the gulf of that name, a people protected by their sunny hills from all noxious blasts, and living in a climate of the same temperature as that of the Hyperborei. Amometus has written a work entirely devoted to the history of these people, just as Hecatæus has done in his treatise on the Hyperborei.
9 Ptolemy speaks of it as the Œchordas.
10 The headland of Malacca, in the Aurea Chersonnesns, was also called by this name, but it is hardly probable that that is the place here meant.
Mention by Pliny
Pliny[3] mentions 'The Seres'....After the Attacori, we find the nations of the Phruri and the Tochari, and, in the interior, the Casiri, a people of India, who look toward the Scythians, and feed on human flesh. Here are also numerous wandering Nomad tribes of India. There are some authors who state that in a north-easterly direction these nations touch upon the Cicones11 and the Brysari.
11 See B. iv. c. 18.