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Ura
The Gaulish goddess, also known as Urae fontis: She of the Bank
Ura (Urae fontis) is a Gaulish goddess known from a single inscription found at Nîmes, France. She seems to have been the patron goddess of a sacred spring in the city of Nîmes. |
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Gaul: She of the Bank
Ura is a goddess known from a single inscription found at Nîmes, France, where she is invoked as Urae fontis (Ura of the fountain or spring [CIL XIII 3076]). Unfortunately none of this goddess' attributes have survived, though her Latin epithet would indicate that she was a deity of the springs of Nîmes.
Interpretation of this goddess' name is problematic as well, though it may be related to the reconstructed proto-Celtic root: *oro- (bank), with the feminine ending -a. Thus Ura may be 'She of the Bank' or maybe 'She who is Beside the Waters'.
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