Medaurus

Medaurus or Gr. Medauros was an Illyrian god of war . He was depicted as a rider with a lance.

Medaurus was the protective deity of the Dalmatian city Risinium in what is now Montenegro.

The cult of the Medaurus is also attested in the North African city of Lambaesis by an inscription in the temple of Asclepius .

In a grotto at the Cape of Santa Maria di Leuca ( province of Lecce ) an inscription mentions the Liburnian ships Medaurus and Rhedon, named after Illyrian deities .

literature

• Richard Ganszyniec : Medaurus. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XV, 1, Stuttgart 1931, Col. 26.
• Nenad Cambi:  Medaurus . In: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Volume VIII, Zurich / Munich 1997, p. 819.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Edith Durham: Some tribal origins, laws and customs of the Balkans . George Allen & Unwin, London 1928.
2. ↑ John Wilkes: The Illyrians . Blackwell, Oxford 1992, ISBN 0631198075. p. 247.
3. ↑ CIL 8, 2581 ; René Cagnat : Note sur deux governors d'Afrique . In: Bulletin archéologique du Comité des travaux scientifiques et historique , 1918, pp. 134–143. PDF, 51 MB
4. ↑ AE 1979, 189 ; Hélène Cuvigny: Plèrôma dans l'identification des soldats de marine . In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , Vol. 110, 1996, pp. 169–173. PDF, 35 kB ; Le Grotte di Santa Maria di Leuca