Gobannus

Gobannus (or Gobannos, the Gaulish form, sometimes Cobannus) was a Gallo-Roman smithing god.

A number of statues dedicated to him are preserved, found together with a bronze cauldron dedicated to Deus Cobannos,^[1] in the late 1980s and illegally^{[failed verification]} exported to the United States, now in the Getty Museum in the Getty Center, in California.^[2] He is mentioned in an inscription found in the 1970s in Fontenay-près-Vézelay, reading AVG(VSTO) SAC(RVM) [DE]O COBANNO, i.e. dedicated to Augustus and Deus Cobannus.

^ Pollini, J (2002), Gallo-Roman Bronzes and the Process of Romanization: The Cobannus Hoard, Monumenta Graeca et Romana, vol. 9, Leiden: Brill
^ US Epigraphy project, inscription number CA.Malibu.JPGM.L.96.AB.54 Archived 2006-09-04 at the Wayback Machine

[1] Pollini, J (2002), Gallo-Roman Bronzes and the Process of Romanization: The Cobannus Hoard, Monumenta Graeca et Romana, vol. 9, Leiden: Brill

[2] US Epigraphy project, inscription number CA.Malibu.JPGM.L.96.AB.54 Archived 2006-09-04 at the Wayback Machine

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