Corotiacus

Corotiacus is the name of a Celtic god from Britain who is equated with Mars according to the Interpretatio Romana .

Mars Corotiacus is named in a single dedicatory inscription from Martlesham ( Suffolk ):

DEO MARTI COROTIACO / SIMPLICIA PRO SE VPLM

(on the base below :) GLAUCUS FECIT

This inscription is placed on a bronze statuette, which shows the god on horseback, riding over an opponent lying on the ground.

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 .
• Miranda J. Green: Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend. Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1997, p. 142.
• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , p. 87.

Web links

• Mars Corotiacus in: Mars (mythology) in the English language Wikipedia.
• German Archaeological Institute: Archaeological Newspaper. Volumes 15–17, Georg Reimer, 1857, p. 135 *.

Sources and individual references

1. ↑ The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB) [1]
2. ↑ Miranda Green: Symbol and Image in Celtic Religious Art. Routledge, 1992, ISBN 978-0-415-08076-7 , p. 114.
3. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 588, note 4.