Celtic Religions in the Roman Period: Personal, Local, and Global (Celtic Studies Publications)

This multi-authored book brings together new work, from a wide range of disciplinary vantages, on pre-Christian religion in the Celtic-speaking provinces of the Roman Empire. The chapters are the work of international experts in the fields of classics, ancient history, archaeology, and Celtic studies. It is fully illustrated with b&w and colour maps, site plans, photographs and drawings of ancient inscriptions and images of Romano-Celtic gods. The collection is based on the thirteenth workshop of the F.E.R.C.AN. project (fontes epigraphici religionum Celticarum antiquarum), which was held in 2014 in Lampeter, Wales. TABLE OF CONTENTS 6 CONTRIBUTORS 9 ABBREVIATIONS 12 1. CELTIC RELIGIONS IN THE ROMAN PERIOD: PERSONAL, LOCAL, AND GLOBAL 16 2. SOME EPIGRAPHIC COMPARANDA BEARING ON THE ‘PAN-CELTIC GOD’ LUGUS 52 3. TYRANNIES OF DISTANCE? MEDIEVAL SOURCES AS EVIDENCE FOR INDIGENOUS CELTIC AND ROMANO-CELTIC RELIGION 72 4. A FOURTH-CENTURY ‘CURSE TABLET’ FROM ULEY 86 5. SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW: THE NAMES OF FAUNUS IN LATE-ROMAN THETFORD (NORFOLK) AND THEIR IRON-AGE BACKGROUND 94 6. THE ROMAN RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE OF ABINGDON, OXFORDSHIRE 118 7. CARRYING THE GODS WITH THEM? PROVENANCE AND PORTABILITY OF ALTARS TO ROMANO-CELTIC DEITIES IN BRITAIN 134 8. TALKING TO THE GODS. EVIDENCE FOR RELIGIOUS PROFESSIONALS AND RELIGIOUS PATTERNS IN ROMAN BRITAIN 166 9. THE THEONYM *CONVENTINA 180 10. MATRES ENDEITERAE, DEUS SANCTUS ENDOVELECOS, DEA NAVE, AND OTHER INDIGENOUS AND CLASSICAL DEITIES IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA 192 11. TWO DIVINITIES OF THE CELTIC CANTABRI 1) ERVDINO, DIVINITY OF THE YEARLY CYCLE 2) CABVNIAEGINO, THE CELTIC FATE OF IE *KAP- AND THE GAULISH SPINDLE WHORL FROM SAINT-RÉVÉRIEN 222 12. LA DIOSA DU(V)ITERA EN UNA INSCRIPCIÓN DE TEJEDA DE TIÉTAR (CÁCERES) 244 13. LOOKING AT COSMOLOGY THROUGH THE LENS OF HERMENEUTICS AND SEMANTICS 268 14. THE GODS THAT NEVER WERE. NEW READINGS OF THE INSCRIPTIONS OF PENEDO DE REMESEIROS (CIL II 2476), PENEDO DAS NINFAS (CIL II 5607), CUEVA DEL VALLE (CIL II2.7, 932) AND CASTRO DAIRE (CIL II 5247) 288 15. LES DIEUX AU NOM INDIGÈNE ET LEURS CULTORES CHEZ LES VOCONCES DE VAISON-LA-ROMAINE D’APRÈS LES INSCRIPTIONS 302 16. DE TARANIS AU JUPITER CAVALIER À L’ANGUIPÈDE: RÉFLEXIONS AUTOUR DU SUBSTRAT CELTIQUE DANS LA RELIGION GALLO-ROMAINE 324 17. THE MAGICIAN’S HOUSE. DRUIDS, PRAYERS AND MAGIC IN ROMAN GAUL 340 18. THE IMPORTANCE OF LOCATION: RELIGIOUS INSCRIPTIONS FROM ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXTS 354 19. CELTIC GODDESSES FROM GALLIA BELGICA AND THE GERMANIAE: CHARACTERISTICS, DEDICANTS AND RITUAL PRACTICES 378 20. SULLE TRACCE DEI LUOGHI DI CULTO DELLE DIVINITÀ PLURALI IN GALLIA CISALPINA 402 21. THE CULT OF HERCULES IN CENTRAL-EASTERN TRANSPADANA (REGIO XI) 416 22. DIVINE NAMES FROM LATIN INSCRIPTIONS OF ISTRIA: SOME CONSIDERATIONS 434 23. A SACRED RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH A SANCTUARY. THE WORSHIP OF RIVERS IN THE SOUTH-EASTERN ALPINE AREA 456 24. ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND EPIGRAPHIC EVIDENCE FOR THE CELTIC PRESENCE IN THE UPPER TIMACHUS RIVER VALLEY (EAST MOESIA SUPERIOR) 476 25. MERCURIUS VALDIVAHANUS 484 26. CORPUS-F.E.R.C.AN. GERMANIA INFERIOR. PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS AND INTENTIONS 520 27. INDEX 526 This book brings together new work, from a wide range of disciplinary vantages, on pre-Christian religion in the Celtic-speaking provinces of the Roman Empire. The chapters are the work of international experts in the fields of classics, ancient history, archaeology, and Celtic studies. It is fully illustrated with black & white and colour maps, site plans, photographs and drawings of ancient inscriptions and images of Romano-Celtic gods. The collection is based on the thirteenth workshop of the F.E.R.C.AN. project (fontes epigraphici religionum Celticarum antiquarum), which was held in 2014 in Lampeter, Wales