Mercurius Arvernus

Example of a votive stone dedicated to Mercurius Avernus, here from the Gripswald site near Meerbusch / Krefeld near a Roman military road between Novaesium and Gelduba

Mercurius Arvernus or Arvernorix is the name of a Roman Celtic , but possibly also a Germanic god . In Gallo-Roman times, Arvernus was equated with the Roman god Mercurius , god of trade and ways. The French dedicatory inscription of the Puy de Dôme , the main sanctuary of the Arverni, calls it genius .

Although his name ( "Arverni", "Arverni") with the Gallic tribe of the Arverni is to be associated, was until now only two dedicated to the Genius Arvernus dedicatory inscriptions found in their tribal area, namely the Puy de Dome ( Arverni , Province Aquitania ) and in Clermont-Ferrand ( Augustonemetum , Province of Aquitania). All other inscriptions come from the Roman province of Germania inferior and the Dekumatland . So were consecrated stones for Arvernus in Wenau in Cologne ( Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium ), two in Grip forest in Meerbusch and in the Netherlands in Roermond found. A dedicatory inscription in Miltenberg (Province of Germania superior ) was dedicated to Arvernorix .

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 , p. 596.
• Siegfried Gutenbrunner : The Germanic god names of the ancient inscriptions . Halle 1936, p. 57f.
• Max Him : Arvernus . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, Col. 1489 f.
• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , p. 30 (Arvernus, Arvernorix).
• Rudolf Simek : Lexicon of Germanic Mythology (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 368). 3rd, completely revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-520-36803-X , pp. 274-275.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CIL XIII, 01522 [Mercurio] / [Arver] no (?) [3] / [3] cives [Romani (?)] / [Nego] tiator [es
2. ↑ CIL XIII, 01462 Genio Arvern [o] / Sext (us) Or [gius] Suavis / (H) aeduus
3. ↑ CIL XIII, 7845 Mercurio Arverno / vicini v (otum?) V [
4. ↑ CIL XIII, 8235 Mercur [io] / [A] rvern [o] / [s] acru [m] / Iulius Iu [1] / [e] x imp (erio) i [ps (ius)]
5. ↑ CIL XIII, 8579 Mercurio / Arverno / M (arcus) Iulius / Audax / pro se et / suis l (ibens) m (erito)
6. ↑ CIL XIII, 8580 Mercurio / Arverno / Sext (us) Sempro / nius Super / l (ibens) m (erito)
7. ↑ CIL XIII, 8709 Mercurio / Arverno / [a] ed (em?) Irmidius / Ma [cr] o ex i (ussu?)
8. ↑ CIL XIII, 6603 Mercurio / Arvernorici / Cossillus D / onavi e <x = S> visu / l (a) etus libe (n) s meri / to