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 Luginbühl³), 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

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.)

External links

Vindolanda & Roman Army Museum, England

[roman-britain-1] Vindolanda Archived 2006-09-27 at the Wayback Machine at www.roman-britain.org

[2] 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

[3] 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.

[4] 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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