Satiada
Satiada was a Celtic goddess worshipped in Roman Britain. She is known from a single, unadorned altar-stone dedicated to her at Chesterholm (Vindolanda).[1] The inscription reads:
- DEAE / SAIIADAE / CVRIA TEX / TOVERDORVM / V·S·L·M
- "To the goddess Satiada, the council of the Textoverdi willingly and deservedly fulfilled their vow."[2]
The Textoverdi, whose curia left this altar, are otherwise unknown.[1]
The name on the stone may alternatively be read as Sattada (the form used by Jufer and Luginbühl[3]), Saitada or Saiiada. If it is read as Satiada, the name may conceivably be related to the Proto-Celtic *sāti- ‘saturation’ or *satjā- ‘swarm’.[4]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Vindolanda Archived 2006-09-27 at the Wayback Machine at www.roman-britain.org
- ↑ B. Collingwood and R.P. Wright. The Roman Inscriptions of Britain. Oxford. RIB 1965. Quoted at www.roman-britain.org Archived 2006-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Nicole Jufer & Thierry Luginbühl (2001). Les dieux gaulois : répertoire des noms de divinités celtiques connus par l'épigraphie, les textes antiques et la toponymie. Paris: Editions Errance. ISBN 2-87772-200-7. p.61.
- ↑ Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales. "Proto-Celtic—English lexicon Archived 2010-12-31 at the Wayback Machine." (See also this page for background.)
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