Barrex

Barrex , also Barrecis (possibly “the highest”), is the name of a Celtic deity who was worshiped in northern England . The Interpretatio Romana equates him with Mars .

Mars Barrex is documented in a single dedicatory inscription from Carlisle on Hadrian's Wall in Rome ( The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB) [1] ).

See also

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

literature

• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , p. 38.