Tynteni

Tynteni, or Tyntenoi ({{langx|grc|Τυντενοί}}) was the name of an Illyrian tribe,The Ancient world, Volumes 25-26 Publisher Ares Publishers, 1994 p.112 "..Illyrian Tynteni.."The Illyrian Atintani, the Epirotic Atintanes and the Roman Protectorate

Author(s): N. G. L. HammondReviewed work(s):Source: The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 79 (1989), pp. 11-25...'Tyntenoi', as the Ionic form of an Illyrian name, with 'Atintanoi' in the West-Greek (or Doric) dialect.2 living in villages, or of a town named Tynte, that may be the sameHistoria numorum: a manual of Greek numismatics by Barclay Vincent Head,1963,page 199,"suggests that Tynte may be identical with Daton." as Daton, a GreekAn Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen, 2005, page 855, "The Thasians [...] they founded Krenides and Daton..." colony in Thrace. The Tynteni and Tynte are only attested in coins. If an actual tribe, the Tynteni were located northA History of Macedonia: 550-336 B.C by Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond, Guy Thompson Griffith, page 93 of lake Ohrid. Their coins, whose minting stops in the early 5th century BC,The Cambridge ancient history: The fourth century B.C. by D. M. Lewis and John Boardman, 1994, page 427, "The silver coinage of the Tynteni ceased early in the fifth century. The period after 475 was one of comparative poverty, during which contacts were lost..." have similarities of those of Ichnae, that was in the archaic age Paeonian but later became Greek. The coin legend is {{langx|el|ΤΥΝΤΕΝΟΝ}}.

The Atintani seem to have originatedThe Cambridge ancient history: Persia, Greece and the Western Mediterranean... by John Boardman, 1988, {{ISBN|0521228042}}, page 496, "The issuing authorities were tribes as far afield as the 'Tynteni' (later Atintani)..." from the obscure Tynteni.