Cobannus

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Cobannus or Gobanos is the name of a blacksmith god among the Gauls . His name means "blacksmith".

Several statues were dedicated to the god Cobannus and were found together with a bronze vessel in an unknown location in France in the late 1980s. A dedicatory inscription has been preserved on one of the objects. These artifacts were brought illegally to the United States and are now in the Getty Center in California. A dedication inscription from Fontenay-près-Vézelay , Roman province Gallia Lugdunensis , is also dedicated to Augustus Cobannus. An inscription naming the variant of the name Gobanos comes from Canterbury in Kent; Another evidence for gobanos is possibly in the Bernese zinc tablet .

The Gallic god is related to the Welsh blacksmith god Govannon and the Irish blacksmith god Goibniu .

The name is derived from the Celtic root * gobn̩n / gobenn- , Old Irish gob (a) e , genitive gobann , Middle Cymrian gof , plural goveyn (all "blacksmith").

See also

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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AE 1994, 1915 Aug (usto) sacr (um) deo Cobanno / L (ucius) Maccius Aeternus / IIvir ex voto
  2. ↑ AE 1993, 1198 Aug (usto) sac (rum) [de] o / Cobanno / AI [3] / AB [3] / Leug (ae) IIII
  3. ↑ The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB) [1]
  4. ↑ 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. 607.