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ANCIENT CELTIC GODDESS
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—(1) At Guidizzolo between Mantua and Verona. (2) At Siguenza. (3) At Alsó-Ilosva in Dacia. (4) At Waitzen in Pannonia. (5) In Carinthia. (6) In Zollfeld. (7) At Mariasaal, Herculi et Eponae aug(ustae). (8) At Cilli, Eponae aug(ustae) sacrum: Iovi o(ptimo) m(aximo) Eponæ et Celeiæ sanctæ. (9) At Windenau near Marburg in Steiermark, Eponae aug(u8tae) sacrum. (10) At Pföring near Ingoktadt in Rhaetia, Campestribus et Eponae. (11) At Mount Rudrik in Moesia, Epone. (12) At Karlsburg in Dacia, Epone regin(ae) sanc(tae). (13) At Varhély in Dacia, not long after A.D. 107, Eponabus et Campestribus. (14) At Salona, [Iovi optim]o mazsi[mo . . . Epo]ne [. . . Marti] Cam[ulo]. (15) At Rome, associated on various inscriptions with the Matres Sulevae (16) At Carvoran. (17) At Auchindayy, near Kirkintulloch in Scotland. (18) At Lyons. (19) At Naix in the department of Meuse. (20) At Metz. (21) At Solothurn. (22) At Til-Châtel in the diocese of Langres, Deae Eponae et dis Mairabus. (23) At Andemach, Eponae sacr(um). (24) At Heinzerath, Kreis Bernkastel, on two inscriptions. There is a place called Epona, now Epône, in the department of Seine-et-Oise, arrond. and canton Mantes, and there are also two places called Eponiācum:—(1) Eppenich, near Aachen. (2) The modern Appoigny, dép. Yonne, arrond. and canton Auxerre. Eponicus occurs as a man’s name on an inscription at Rome (cil vi 3281). The zone of distribution of the Epona inscriptions will give a fair conception of the districts where her worship was most prominent. As her name shows, she was pre-eminently a goddess of horses.

Among the other names of goddesses which occur in this zone or its neighbouring districts, may be instanced that of Clutoissa or Clutoiđđa, which occurs on an inscription not far from Noviodūnum in GauL Her name occurs on two inscriptions, one from the village of Mesves-sur-Loire in the department of Nièvre, arrond Cosne, canton Pouilly-sur-Loire, near a spring with a reputation for healing fevers. The inscription reads, Aug(usto) sacrum, deæ Cluto[i]dae, etc. It occurs,