Verbeia

Verbeia is a female Celtic deity associated with the River Wharfe in Yorkshire .

mythology

Was Verbeia possibly a river goddess and perhaps a local deity of the tribe of Lingones , the Caesar supported and its members later in the Roman fortress at Ilkley were stationed in West Yorkshire. Birkhan and Cunliffe also see her as a healing deity.

An altar showing a standing female figure dressed in a toga and showing a snake in each hand, with the inscription VERBEIAE SACRVM CLODIVS FRONTO PRAEF COH II LINGON, was found in Ilkley. The inscription is the only indication of the existence of Verbeia and means in German: " Clodius Fronto , Prefect of the Cohors II Lingonum , [consecrated] Saint Verbeia [this altar] ". A relief from Ilkley, which also shows a figure with snakes, cannot be assigned to Verbeia with certainty, since this image is not accompanied by an inscription.

See also

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

literature

• 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 .
• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 1076.
2. ↑ Barry Cunliffe: The Celts and Their History. Bergisch Gladbach 1980/1992, p. 77.
3. ↑ The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB) [1]
4. ^ Bernhard Maier: Lexicon of the Celtic religion and culture . P. 326 f.