Arduinna

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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.

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Cast of the consecration stone found at Gey in 1859.

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.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bernhard Maier: Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture , p. 23.
  2. ↑ CIL XIII, 07848 Deae Ardbi / nnae T (itus) Iuli / us Aequalis / s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito)
  3. ^ Image in: Sylvia & Paul F. Botheroyd: Lexicon of Celtic Mythology. P. 22.
  4. ↑ CIL VI, 46 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)
  5. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 683.

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