Tridamus

Tridamus , or Triadamos , may have been a Celto-British deity . The name has so far only been read from an inscription that was found in Michaelchurch and was perhaps originally set up in Magnis (for a more detailed description of the altar with the inscription, see the local article Michaelchurch). If the name is correct, it would come from the Celtic words * tri - (three) and * damo (cow) and would mean the threefold god of cattle .

However, since the inscription is read more as EO TRI [VII] BECCICUS DONAVIT ARA [M] (“[To the God of the] three ways Beccicus donates this altar”), this version and the existence of the deity is very questionable, although it is in is still mentioned in some uncertain sources.

See also

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

literature

• Eric Birley: The Deities of Roman Britain , in Wolfgang Haase (Hrsg.) Rise and Fall of the Roman World, 2nd Principate, 18th Religion , Berlin 1986, ISBN 3110100509 , p. 72, no. 42 online

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB) [1]