Satiada was a

Celtic goddess The gods and goddesses of the pre-Christian Celtic peoples are known from a variety of sources, including ancient places of worship, statues, engravings, cult objects and place or personal names. The ancient Celts appear to have had a pantheon ...

worshipped in

Roman Britain Roman Britain was the period in classical antiquity when large parts of the island of Great Britain were under occupation by the Roman Empire. The occupation lasted from AD 43 to AD 410. During that time, the territory conquered was ...

. She is known from a single, unadorned altar-stone dedicated to her at

Chesterholm Vindolanda was a Roman auxiliary fort (''castrum'') just south of Hadrian's Wall in northern England, which it originally pre-dated.British windo- 'fair, white, blessed', landa 'enclosure/meadow/prairie/grassy plain' (the modern Welsh word woul ...

''(

Vindolanda Vindolanda was a Roman auxiliary fort (''castrum'') just south of Hadrian's Wall in northern England, which it originally pre-dated.British windo- 'fair, white, blessed', landa 'enclosure/meadow/prairie/grassy plain' (the modern Welsh word woul ...

)''.Vindolanda
at www.roman-britain.org The inscription reads: :DEAE / SAIIADAE / CVRIA TEX / TOVERDORVM / V·S·L·M :"To the goddess Satiada, the council of the Textoverdi willingly and deservedly fulfilled their vow." The

Textoverdi The Textoverdi (Common Brittonic: *''Textowerdī'') were a tribe of Celtic Britons whose name appears in the upper valley of the River South Tyne in present-day Northumberland.''The Ancient world'', Volume 35, Issues 1-2 (Ares Publishers, 2004), 1 ...

, whose ''curia'' left this altar, are otherwise unknown. The name on the stone may alternatively be read as ''Sattada'' (the form used by Jufer and Luginbühl), ''Saitada'' or ''Saiiada''. If it is read as ''Satiada,'' the name may conceivably be related to the

Proto-Celtic Proto-Celtic, or Common Celtic, is the ancestral proto-language of all known Celtic languages, and a descendant of Proto-Indo-European. It is not attested in writing but has been partly Linguistic reconstruction, reconstructed through the compar ...

''*sāti-'' ‘saturation’ or ''*satjā-'' ‘swarm’.Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies,

University of Wales The University of Wales (Welsh language, Welsh: ''Prifysgol Cymru'') is a confederal university based in Cardiff, Wales. Founded by royal charter in 1893 as a federal university with three constituent colleges – Aberystwyth, Bangor and Cardiff � ...

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Vindolanda & Roman Army Museum, England
{{Celtic mythology (ancient) Goddesses of the ancient Britons