In Gallo-Roman religion, Dea Aveta was a mother goddess, also associated with the freshwater spring at

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in what is now

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. Miranda Green. "The Celtic Goddess as Healer." In Sandra Billington (ed). 1996.
The Concept of the Goddess
'' Routledge. . p.33. Aveta is known mainly from clay figurines found at Toulon-sur- Allier in

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and at Trier. These figurines show the goddess with infants at the breast, small lap-dogs, or baskets of fruit. There was a temple dedicated to Aveta in the Altbachtal complex at Trier. Her name is also known from inscriptions found in Switzerland and the Côte-d'Or (

).''L'Arbre Celtique.'
"Aveta"
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