Arduinna
Arduinna (also: Ardvinna , Ardbinna ) was a female Celtic deity of the forest and namesake of the Ardennes . The name may be with the Irish ard and Welsh Ardd related (both "high"). The deity is assigned to the Roman Diana according to the Interpretatio Romana , a mythological similarity to the Black Forest goddess Abnoba as a mountain deity is assumed.
Locations
A veneration could be proven in north-western Gaul and the Gallo-Germanic mixed zones in the left bank of the Rhine. In 1859, during clearing work in Gey ( Düren district , Roman province Germania inferior ), on the slopes of the Eifel , which were originally understood to be part of the Ardennes, an inscription stone dedicated to "Deae Ardbinnae" of unknown time was found (today in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn ) . The new discovery of a dedicatory inscription for a previously unknown goddess Ahvardua belongs to this context .
A found bronze statuette depicts her as a youthful goddess in a hunting robe, armed with a bow and arrow, riding a boar. However, it has not been proven beyond doubt whether this is actually the goddess. The exact location is unknown, the statue is now in the Musée des Antiquités Nationales in Saint-Germain-en-Laye .
A statue of Diana has been preserved in Rome, with the inscription ARDVINNE along with other names of gods. It was dedicated to the goddess of his homeland by M. Quartinius Sabinus, a native of Remer and guard soldier. The partially destroyed statue was added incorrectly, but the original shape is still known from older illustrations. Even the name ARDVINNE, although it once existed, is no longer legible today.
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 .
- Sylvia & Paul F. Botheroyd: Lexicon of Celtic Mythology. Tosa Verlag, Vienna 2004.
- Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Bernhard Maier: Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture , p. 23.
- ↑ CIL Deae Ardbi / nnae T (itus) Iuli / us Aequalis / s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito) XIII, 07848
- ^ Image in: Sylvia & Paul F. Botheroyd: Lexicon of Celtic Mythology. P. 22.
- ↑ CIL Saturno M [arti] / Iovi / Mercurio / Herculi // M (arcus) Quartinius M (arci) f (ilius) cives Sabinus Remus / miles coh (ortis) VII pr (aetoriae) Antoninian (a) ev (indicis) p (iae) v (otum) l (ibens) s (olvit) VI, 46
- ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 683.
Web links
- Regional Association of Rhineland. Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn and Association of Friends of Antiquity in the Rhineland: Yearbooks of the Association of Friends of Antiquity in the Rhineland, volumes 29-32 . Marcus, 1860, p. 70.
- Hagen Keller , Nikolaus Staubach : Iconologia sacra: Myth, visual art and poetry in the religious and social history of old Europe. Walter de Gruyter, 1994, ISBN 9783110846119 , p. 322.