Carpentus

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Carpentus , also Carpantus , was a local Celtic deity from Gaul and mainly found in what is now the Haute-Garonne department .

Mythology and Etymology

Carpantus / Carpentus is believed to be the deity of the (chariot) warriors (see etymology of the name), but no precise information on its function can be derived from the preserved inscriptions. Such inscriptions have been found in Fréjus ( Forum Julii , Province of Gallia Narbonensis ), Huos, Péguilhan and Sarrecave (all three at Lugdunum Convenarum , Province of Gallia Aquitana ).

There may be an etymological connection between the name and the Protoceltic root * karbanto- , from which the Gallic word carpento for chariots (handed down from Livy ). In this case it would be related to the Irish male name Coirpre ( Cairbre ).

See also

literature

  • August Friedrich von Pauly, Georg Wissowa: Paulys Real Encyclopedia of Classical Antiquity: Supplement . tape 3 . JB Metzler, 1899, p. 287 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Lesley Adkins, Roy A. Adkins: Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome . In: Facts on File Library of World History . Infobase Publishing, New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-8160-7482-2 , pp. 285 (English, 450 pp., Limited preview in Google Book Search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CIL XII, 0248 L (ucius) Valerius / Quartus / Carpanto / v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito)
  2. ↑ CIL XIII, 0093 Deodorant / Carp [e] / nto
  3. ^ AE 1953, 1 Carpento / deo
  4. ↑ AE 1969/70, 389 Carpento / deo / Titullus / Publi f (ilius) v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito)