Icauna
Icauna is a Gallic goddess who was worshiped as the river deity of the Yonne . This veneration is attested by an inscription that was found at the beginning of the 18th century near Auxerre in the Yonne department (the ancient oppidum Autessiodorum in the Roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis ), but is now considered lost:
- AUG (USTO) SACR (UM) DEAE / ICAUNI / T (ITUS) TETR (I) CIUS AFRICAN (US) / D (E) S (UO) D (EDIT) D (EDICAVIT)
Whether there is a connection with the Celtic tribe of the Iceni , who lived in the area of today's Norfolk and Suffolk in Britain , known through Queen Boudicca , - possibly in the course of an early historical migration from Gaul to Britain - cannot be proven.
literature
- George Long : Icaunus or Icauna . In: William Smith : Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London 1854. p. 11.
- Johann Baptist Keune : Icauna. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IX, 1, Stuttgart 1914, Col. 819.
- Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , p. 176.
- Yves Lafont: Icauna. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 5, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01475-4 , Sp. 881.
- Patricia Monaghan: The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore. Infobase Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-8160-4524-0 , p. 254. (books.google.de)
Individual evidence
- ↑ CIL XIII, 2921 .