Intarabus
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Intarabus was a Gaulish god in the pantheon of the Treveri and some neighbouring peoples. His name is known from nine inscriptions from a relatively compact area in what are now Belgium, Luxembourg, western Germany and eastern France.Nicole Jufer & Thierry Luginbühl (2001). Les dieux gaulois : répertoire des noms de divinités celtiques connus par l'épigraphie, les textes antiques et la toponymie. Paris: Editions Errance. {{ISBN|2-87772-200-7}}. {{in lang|fr}} He may have been the tutelary deity of one of the three pagi (subdivisions) of the Treveri.Ton Derks (1998). Gods, Temples and Ritual Practices: The Transformation of Religious Ideas and Values in Roman Gaul. Amsterdam University Press. {{ISBN|978-90-5356-254-3}}. p.199. In most cases, Intarabus is invoked alone – without any synthesis to a Roman deity, and without accompanying female deities. However, one inscription invokes him as Mars Intarabus, noting that a fanum and simulacrum of this god had been restored at Trier.{{CIL|13|03653}}Joan Carbonell Manils and H. Gimeno Pascual. "[http://ddd.uab.cat/pub/faventia/02107570v27n2p7.pdf Un fanum in Turgalium]". p.15. In Faventia 27/2, 2005. {{in lang|es}} Meanwhile, another inscription from Mackwiller in Alsace gives Intarabus the epithet Narius.{{AE|1957|0155b}} An inscription at Ernzen in Germany has his name as [In]tarabus,{{AE|1978|0513}} while another from Foy-Noville (now within the town of Bastogne in Belgium), invokes Entarabus in conjunction with the Genius Ollodagus.{{CIL|13|03632}}
A bronze statuette from the Foy-Noville site, identified on the base as Deo Intarabo (in the dative case), depicts the god as a beardless, long-haired man in a tunic, draped with a wolf skin.David Colling (2011), La statuette d'Intarabus de Foy-Noville, Annales de l'Institut Archéologique du Luxembourg, 145, p. 83-89, ISSN 0776-1244 His raised right hand would presumably have held a spear or some other implement, while his left hand, extended at waist length, is now missing.Jean-Luc Bodeux. « [http://www.lesoir.be/regions/namur_luxembourg/2006/08/24/article_hermes_464365.shtml Fabuleux bestiaire d'Ardenne]{{Dead link|date=January 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} ». Le Soir, 23 August 2006. {{in lang|fr}}
The theatre at Echternach appears to have been dedicated to Intarabus,{{CIL|13|3653|R=}}Frank Sear (2006). Roman Theatres: An Architectural Survey. Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-19-814469-4}}. p.210. as was an aedicula at Ernzen.[http://www.irrel.de/tourismus/sehenswert/s_weihe.htm Weihedenkmal des Gottes Intarabus in Ernzen] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070830075012/http://www.irrel.de/tourismus/sehenswert/s_weihe.htm |date=2007-08-30 }} and [http://bwpc08.fh-trier.de:8080/kuDb/servlet/kategorieObj?aktSchluessel=573 Kulturgüter in der Region Trier] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926222705/http://bwpc08.fh-trier.de:8080/kuDb/servlet/kategorieObj?aktSchluessel=573 |date=2007-09-26 }}, both concerning reconstructed monuments to Intarabus at Ernzen (with photographs). {{in lang|de}} A silver ring engraved simply with the name Intarabo (again, in the dative case) was found at Dalheim.Drawing of the ring and descriptions as given on a wall plaque at the Musée national d'histoire et d'art, Luxembourg.
According to Helmut Birkhan, the site at Mackwiller reveals a number of evolutions in the local cult. Starting in the 1st century CE, there was a sanctuary for Narius Intarabus related to worship at a local spring. In the 2nd century CE, a mithraeum was built there, and inscriptions testify to the common worship of Mithras and Narius Intarabus. In the second half of the 3rd century, the mithraeum was replaced with a traditional Gaulish-style temple, which now enclosed the sacred spring. From this it can be seen that the Mithraic cult was abandoned in favour of the older Celtic local deities.Helmut Birkhan: Kelten. Versuch einer Gesamtdarstellung ihrer Kultur. p. 280.
The name ‘Intarabus’ has been characterized as “etymologically obscure”;Bernhard Maier (1998). Dictionary of Celtic Religion and Culture. Boydell & Brewer. {{ISBN|978-0-85115-660-6}}. p.158. Xavier Delamarre, however, takes the name to mean entar-abus "Entre-Rivières" (between rivers).Xavier Delamarre (2003). Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise : Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2e édition. Éditions Errance. {{ISBN|2-87772-237-6}}. pp.29, 162. {{in lang|fr}}