Dumiatis

Dumiatis is the name of a Celtic god of the Gauls who was worshiped in the Puy-de-Dôme department .

An inscription was found on a bronze plaque in a Gallo-Roman temple district on the summit of the Puy de Dôme near Clermont-Ferrand in the former Roman province of Aquitania . According to the Interpretatio Romana , he was equated with Mercurius .

The name Puy-de-Dôme goes back to the ancient toponym podium Dumiatis .

See also

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

literature

• Andreas Hofeneder: Mercurius Arvernus. Reflections on Plin., Nat. Hist. 34.45-47. In: Ralph Haeussler, Anthony C. King (Eds.): Continuity and innovation in religion in the Roman west. Volume 2. Journal of Roman Archeology, Portsmouth 2008, ISBN 978-1-88782-996-0 , pp. 103–118 (here: pp. 111–112; excerpt from Google books ).
• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , p. 105.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CIL XIII, 1523 : Num (inibus) Aug (ustorum) / et deo Mercuri (o) / Dumiati / Matutinius / Victorinus / d (onum) d (edit) .
2. ^ Ernest Desjardins : Géographie historique et administrative de la Gaule romaine . Volume 1, Paris 1876, p. 108.