Artio
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "about". Artio (Dea Artio in the Gallo-Roman religion) is a Celtic bear goddess. Evidence of her worship has notably been found at Bern in Switzerland. Her name is derived from the Gaulish word for 'bear', artos.[1]
Name
The Gaulish theonym Artiō derives from the Celtic word for the 'bear', Script error: No such module "Lang". (cf. Old Irish Script error: No such module "Lang"., Middle Welsh Script error: No such module "Lang"., Old Breton Script error: No such module "Lang".), itself from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos ('bear'). A Celtic form reconstructed as *Arto-rix ('Bear-King') could be the source for the name Arthur, via a Latinized form *Artori(u)s. The Basque Script error: No such module "Lang". ('bear') is also presumed to be a Celtic loanword.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
Attestations
A bronze sculpture from the Muri statuette group, found near Bern in Switzerland, shows a large bear facing a woman seated in a chair, with a small tree behind the bear. The woman seems to hold fruit in her lap, perhaps feeding the bear.[2] The sculpture has a large rectangular bronze base, which bears the inscription "Deae Artioni / Licinia Sabinilla" ("To the Goddess Artio" or "Artionis", "from Licinia Sabinilla"). If the name is Gaulish but the syntax is Latin, a dative Artioni would give an i-stem nominative *Artionis or an n-stem nominative *Artio. That would perhaps correspond to a Gaulish n-stem nominative *Artiu.
Other inscriptions to the goddess have been discovered in Daun (CIL 13, 4203), Weilerbach (CIL 13, 4113), Heddernheim (CIL 13, 7375 [4, p 125]), and Stockstadt (CIL 13, 11789).[3]
Popular culture
Artio is a playable character in the video game Smite.[4]
See also
References
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- ^ Adrian Room, Placenames of the World: Origins and Meanings of the Names for 6,600 Countries, Cities, Territories, Natural Features, and Historic Sites, McFarland, 2006, p. 57.
- ^ Deyts p. 48, Green pp. 217–218
- ^ CIL XIII
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Artio: The Bear Goddess". SMITE. Archived from the original on 2017-08-05. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
- Bibliography
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- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) vol XIII, Inscriptiones trium Galliarum et Germaniarum
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Delamarre, Xavier (2003). Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental. Errance. ISBN 9782877723695.
- Deyts, Simone (1992) Images des Dieux de la Gaule. Paris: Editions Errance. Template:ISBN.
- Green, Miranda (1992) Animals in Celtic Life and Myth. London: Routledge. Template:ISBN
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Matasović, Ranko (2009). Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic. Brill. ISBN 9789004173361.
- Wightman, E. M. (1970) Roman Trier and the Treveri London: Hart-Davis. Template:ISBN
External links
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