Ancamna

Ancamna is a Gallo-Roman water and spring goddess of Celtic mythology , who was especially venerated in parts of the Moselle valley , in Trier ( Augusta Treverorum , temple district Irminenwingert ) and Ripsdorf together with Mars Lenus , in Möhn with Mars Smertulianus.

Lore

Ancamna's altars in Trier were dedicated to the worship of Mars as were other genii of Treveri . It is obvious, therefore, to see a tribal deity in Ancamna. Votive offerings for Ancamna, Mars Smertulianus and a local Genius cucullatus were found in the sanctuary of Möhn . In Luxembourg excavators found a bronze ex voto for Inciona and Lenus Mars Veraudunus ; a connection between Ancamna and Inciona is suspected, but is currently not clearly demonstrable.

literature

Peter Berresford Ellis : Dictionary of Celtic Mythology . ABC-Clio, Santa Barbara 1992, ISBN 0-87436-609-7 , pp.?.

Individual evidence

^ Hermann Finke: New inscriptions . In: Report of the Roman-Germanic Commission. Volume 17, 1927, numbers 12, 13, 20 and 254 ( digitized version ).
↑ CIL 000013 XIII, 4119 Marti Sme [rtuli] t [a] no et [Anc] amnae / C (aius) G () Sec [3] / II [-].

[1] Hermann Finke: New inscriptions . In: Report of the Roman-Germanic Commission. Volume 17, 1927, numbers 12, 13, 20 and 254 ( digitized version ).

[2] CIL 000013 XIII, 4119 Marti Sme [rtuli] t [a] no et [Anc] amnae / C (aius) G () Sec [3] / II [-].