ロスメルタ
ガロ・ローマ時代の宗教では、ロスメルタは豊穣と豊穣の女神であり、その属性はコルヌコピアなどの豊穣のものであった。ロスメルタは、彫像や碑文によって存在を証明されている。ガリアでは、彼女はローマの神メルクリウスとともに描かれることが多かったが、単独で描かれることもある。
Etymology
The name Rosmerta is Gaulish, and is analysed as ro-smert-a. Smert means "provider" or "carer" and is also found in other Gaulish names such as Ad-smerio, Smertu-litani, Smerius (Σμερο), Smertae, Smertus, and others.テンプレート:Sfnp Ro- is a modifier meaning "very", "great", or "most" as found in Ro-bili ("most-good") or Ro-cabalus ("great horse").テンプレート:Sfnp The -a ending is the typical Gaulish feminine singular nominative. The meaning is thus "the Great Provider".
Iconography
A relief from Autun (ancient Augustodunum, the civitas capital of the Celtic Aedui), shows Rosmerta and Mercury seated together as a divine couple. She holds a cornucopia, with Mercury holding a patera at her left side.
A bas-relief from Eisenbergテンプレート:Sfnp shows the couple in the same relative positions, with Rosmerta securely identified by the inscription.[1] Rosmerta holds a purse in her right hand and a patera in her left.
In a pair of statues from Paris depicting the couple, Rosmerta holds a cornucopia and a basket of fruits.
Rosmerta is shown by herself on a bronze statue from Fins d'Annency (Haute-Savoie), where she sits on a rock holding a purse and, unusually, also bears the wings of Mercury on her head. A stone bas-relief from Escolives-Sainte-Camilleテンプレート:Sfnp shows her holding both a patera and a cornucopia.
Inscriptions
Twenty-seven inscriptions to Rosmerta are listed by Jufer and Luginbühl,テンプレート:Sfnp distributed in France, Germany and Luxembourg, corresponding mainly to the Roman provinces of Gallia Belgica and Germania Superior. An additional two inscriptions are known, one from Roman Dacia.[2]
An inscription from Metz[3] is a dedication (votum) to Mercury and Rosmerta jointly. Another from Eisenberg was made by a decurion in fulfillment of a vow to the couple jointly.[4]
In two inscriptions[5] both from Gallia Belgica, Rosmerta is given the epithet sacra, sacred. A lengthier inscription from Wasserbillig in Gallia Belgica[6] associates the divine couple with the dedication of a shrine (aedes), with "hospitable" rites to be celebrated.[7]
See also
Notes
References
- Année Epigraphique volumes 1967, 1987, 1998
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL), volume 13, Tres Galliae ("The Three Gauls")
- テンプレート:Cite book
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参照
- ↑ テンプレート:AE
- ↑ テンプレート:AE
- ↑ テンプレート:CIL
- ↑ Deo Mercu(rio) / et Rosmer(tae) / M(arcus) Adiuto/rius Mem/{m}or d(ecurio) c(ivitatis) St() / [po]s(uit) l(ibens) m(erito) ("Marcus Adiutorius Memor, a decurion of the civitas St… has deposited [this votive] willingly, as is deserved"). The name of the civitas, the Celtic community, is presumably obscured. The latter phrase is a variation on the standard votum solvit libens merito, in which the person making the dedication declares that he "has released his vow willingly, as is deserved," often abbreviated as V.S.L.M.
- ↑ テンプレート:CIL and テンプレート:CIL.
- ↑ テンプレート:CIL
- ↑ Deo Mercurio [et deae Ros]/mertae aedem c[um signis orna]/mentisque omn[ibus fecit] / Acceptus tabul[arius VIvir] / Augustal[is donavit?] / item hospitalia [sacror(um) cele]/brandorum gr[atia pro se libe]/risque suis ded[icavit 3] / Iulias Lupo [et Maximo co(n)s(ulibus)].
