The Montunates were the inhabitants of an ancient vicus around modern Albizzate, in Transpadana (northern Roman Italy). They are known from a single votive inscription of the Roman period.
Attestation The vicani Montunates appear in a dedication to Jupiter Optimus Maximus found at Albizzate (Transpadana) and dated to the 1st or 2nd century AD:CIL V 5604
The inscription names the community as a body of vicani, the inhabitants of a vicus (village), and records the offering as the act of an individual, Lovanius, who discharged a vow to the god. The dedication is addressed to Jupiter Optimus Maximus, the chief deity of the Roman state.
The name survives in Montonate, a hamlet (frazione) of Mornago.
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