Iovantucarus

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Iovantucarus ("who loves youth", older form * Ḭoṷantutokāros ) is the name of a Celtic deity who is mentioned on some inscriptions from the area of ​​the Treveri and there is usually equated with Mars according to the Interpretatio Romana .

Inscriptions and function

Five inscriptions from Trier ( Augusta Trevirorum ) name Iovantucarus in the Irminenwingert temple district in connection with Mars Lenus and once with Mercurius (Fi 15-19). On an inscription from Tholey ( Saarland ) it is also seen as a Celtic equivalent to Mercurius, on a silver ring found in Heidenburg , the name stands alone.

Iovantucaros is the patron of the youth, to whom bird offerings are made by children in cult portraits in the temple district of Trier. As the patron saint of the "boyships", he is sometimes equated with Vassocaletis .

See also

literature

  • Wolfgang Binsfeld (et al.): Catalog of the Roman stone monuments of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier 1: Gods and consecration monuments. (= Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani Germany IV 3). Mainz 1988.
  • 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. 597. 665-666.
  • Miranda Green: Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend. Thames and Hudson Ltd. London, 1997, p.
  • Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , p. 180.

Web links

  • Fondation pour le Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae [Organization] (Ed.): Thesaurus Cultus Et Rituum Antiquorum (ThesCRA). Getty Publications, Los Angeles 2004, ISBN 0-89236-788-1 , pp. 402 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Lesley Adkins, Roy A. Adkins: Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome (=  Oxford paperbacks ). Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-19-512332-8 , pp. 262 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Pp. 437, 665.
  2. ^ Hermann Finke : New inscriptions. In: Report of the Roman-Germanic Commission 17, 1927, pp. 1–107 No. 18  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( [Deo I] ovantucaro / [3 pro M] ercuriale / [f] ilio v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito) ) and 19  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: Der Link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( [Marti Iovantu] caro sa [crum (?)] / [3] turnus [3] / [3] puli fili (i) v (otum) s (olvit) [l (ibens) m (erito)] ).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / oracle-vm.ku-eichstaett.de  @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / oracle-vm.ku-eichstaett.de  
  3. ↑ CIL XIII, 4525
  4. ↑ CIL XIII, 10024,006
  5. ↑ Miranda Green: The Gods of the Celts . Stroud, 1986; Dover (USA), 1993, p. 158.
  6. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Pp. 597, 665 f.