Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 23-24. (1994)
I. Arheologie
24 ADRIAN HUSAR 8 Finally, we can notice the fact that among the believers of the couple Apollo Grannus - Sirona, wellknown throughout the Empire, seldom70 we meet characters of higher rank as the dedicants from Sarmizegetusa. Mostly interesting is the inscription from Apulum consecrated Badonib(us) Reginis,71 a unique testimony in the Empire of this collective divinity. Badones Reginae72 were framed both by the cults of the Celtic world,73 and the sphere of the Germanic divinities.74 Thus, on the Lower Rhine we find Baduhennae locus75 connected with a Frisian goddess, Baduhenna.76 In the same geographic and ethno-cultural area are also attested Matronae Boudunnehae.77 Concerning the dedicant from Apulum, we can certify only the fact that Sextia Augustina is epigraphically mentioned for the first time. In this respect, the motivation of the religious act might be determined by the maintaining of the ancestral beliefs in the religious consciousness of the dedicant. In the metropolis of Dacia, Sarmizegetusa,78 Campestres79 -the protectresses of the soldiers and, mostly, of the battlefield-, are worshiped assciated with Epona, another divinity endeared by the soldiers. The ocupation of the dedicant M. Calventius Viator, exerc(itator) eq(uitum) sing(ularium) explains its predilection for the military divinities from the sphere of the cavalry, studs and the training battlefield, as the mentioning of the governon C. Avidius Nigrinus80 in the text of the inscription allowes its dating between AD 110-112 or 112-114. Cernunnos,81 one of the "great gods"82 of the Celts, is known in Dacia from two testimony, one of them calling him lupiter Cernenus -name met nowhere also in the Empire. In the Roman epoch, the god mostly occurs in the posture of a patron of prosperity and of the trade. However, 70 CIL XIII, 8007 = ILS. 1195 (Germania); CIL VII, 1082 = ILS. 4646 (Britannia)l AE. 1968, 239 (Hispania Tarraconensis). 71 JÖAI, III, 1900, p. 186 = ILS. 9335 = V. Wollmann, Germania. 53,1975, p. 17. RE. II 1, c. 472-474, s.v. Regina (Stech). 73 A. Holder, Altceltischer Sprachschatz. I, Leipzig, 1896, c. 788; S. Sanie, in SCIV. 21, 2, 1973, p. 295-298. 74 V.Wollmann, toe. cit. 75 Tacitus, Ann., IV, 73. 76 M. Schönfeld, Wörterbuch der Altgermanischen Personen- und Völkernamen. Heidelberg, 1911, p.40. 77 G.Ristov, in Römer am Rhein, Köln, 1967, p.164 sq, Kat. A, 102,103. 78 CIL. III. 7904 = ILS. 2417 = IDR. 111/2. 205. 79 LexMyth. 1/1, c. 849-850, s.v. Campestres (Steuding); RE, III, c. 1444-1445, s.v. Campestres (Ihm); Avon Domaszewski, Die Religion des römischen Heeres. Trier, 1895, p.50 sqq. 80 I.Piso, in Tituli, 4. Roma. 1982. p.384. 81 LexMyth, 1/1, c. 866-867, s.v. Cernunnos (Steuding). 82 F.Drexel, in BerRGK. 14, 1922, (1923), p. 18.
