Buxenus

Buxenus is the name of a Gaulish local god who, according to the Interpretatio Romana, is equated with Mars .

Mars Buxenus is mentioned in a single dedicatory inscription from Velleron near Carpentras ( Carpentorate , Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis ; today in the Vaucluse department ):

[Iul] ianus Ten [---] / deo / Marti Bu / xeno / [I] ulianus / [v] otum p (osuit)

The nearby Buisson , in the Middle Ages Campus Buxonus , is named after the deity.

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 .
• Maximilian Ihm : Buxenus . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 1093 f.
• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , p. 62.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CIL XII, 5832 .
2. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 650.
3. ^ Pauly / Wissowa: Paulys Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswwissenschaft, Volume 14, JB Metzler, 1930, p. Viii.