Amarcolitanus

Amarcolitanus is the name of a Gallic (healing) god who, according to the Interpretatio Romana, is equated with Apollo . Amarcolitanus could mean “whose gaze is wide”, “the one who looks far”.

His name is mentioned on a dedicatory inscription from Branges in the Haeduer area , Roman province of Lugudunensis . He is also associated with the Celtic healing gods Grannus and Mogon ( Granus Mogounus Amarcolitanus ) on inscriptions in Monthelon (Saône-et-Loire) and Horbourg-Wihr ( Département Haut-Rhin ) , which suggests a healing god in him.

See also

• List of Celtic gods and legendary figures
• Celtic religion
• Celtic mythology

literature

• Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 .
• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , p. 17.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CIL XIII, 2600 Deo Apol / lini Gran / no Amarcolitan (o) / Veranus / Verci f (ilius) Tilander / v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito)
2. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 620.
3. ^ Imperial German Archaeological Institute, Roman-Germanic Commission: Germania, volumes 28–29. CC Buchner, 1944, p. 220.