Telo (mythology)

An inscription with the name of god Telo

Telo is a Celtic god, the eponymous spirit of Toulon[citation needed] in the Var. He was the deity of the sacred spring around which the ancient settlement sprang up. A series of dedications to Telo come from Périgueux: on three of these Telo is invoked with another deities: the goddesses Sianna (in 3 inscriptions)[1][2][3] and Vesunna (in one inscription).[4][5] The etymology of the deities Telo and Sianna is closely related to the Roman Apollo and Diana.[6][7][8]

References

  1. ^ CIL 13, 00950 = CIL 13, 00951 = ILA-Petr 00019 = CAG-24-02, p 286 = AE 2001, +01379 province: Aquitani(c)a place: Perigueux / Vesunna: [Deo Teloni] et deae Stanna[e] solo A(uli) Pomp(eii) Antiqui perm[issuque eius 3] / [Silvani f(ilius) Quir(ina) Ba]ssus c(urator) c(ivium) R(omanorum) consa[ep]tum omne circa templum / [basilicas du]as cum ceteris o[r]namentis ac muniment[is faciendum curavit]
  2. ^ CIL 13, 00952 = CIL 13, 00953 = ILA-Petr 00020 = CAG-24-02, p 286 = AE 2001, +01379 province: Aquitani(c)a place: Perigueux / Vesunna: Deo Telon[i et deae Stannae] solo A(uli) Pomp(ei) Antiq[ui permissuque eius(?) C(aius) Iul(ius)] / Silvani fi[l(ius) Quir(ina) Bassus c(urator) c(ivium) R(omanorum)] consaeptum omne circ[a templum itemque cir]/ca templu[m basilicas duas cu]m ceteris ornamentis ac [munimentis faciendum curavit]
  3. ^ CIL 13, 00954 = ILA-Petr 00021 = CAG-24-02, p 279 = AE 2001, +01379 province: Aquitani(c)a place: Perigueux / Vesunna: [Deo Teloni et deae S]tannae solo A(uli) Pomp(ei) Ant[iqui permissuque eius(?) C(aius) Iul(ius)] / [Silvani fil(ius) Quir(ina)] Bassus c(urator) c(ivium) R(omanorum) consaept[um omne circa templum] / [itemque circa templum] basilicas duas cum cet[eris ornamentis ac munimentis faciendum curavit]
  4. ^ CIL 13, 00948 = ILA-Petr 00007 = D 04690 province: Aquitani(c)a, place: Perigueux / Vesunna: Numin(i) / Aug(usti) et / [d]eo Telon[i(?)] / [3]MA[
  5. ^ CIL XIII: 948, 950, 952 and 954.
  6. ^ Georgieff, Dimitar (2017). "Identity of the local pair of deities Telo and Sianna with Apollo and Diana on the territory of Roman Gaul".
  7. ^ CIL XIII: 948, 950, 952 and 954.
  8. ^ Henry François Athanase Wlgrin de Taillefer (1821–1826). Antiquités de Vésone, cité gauloise remplacée par la ville actuelle de Périgueux, ou description des monumens religieux, civils et militaires de cette antique cité et de son territoire, précédée d'un essai sur les Gaulois. Vol. 1. Périgueux: chez F. Dupont. pp. 502, 505.
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