Asiona
''Myrice'' is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae The geometer moths are moths belonging to the family Geometridae of the insect order Lepidoptera, the moths and butterflies. Their scientific name derives from the Ancient Greek ''geo'' γεω (derivative form of or "the earth"), and ''metr .... References * Sterrhinae {{Sterrhinae-stub ...
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Acionna
Acionna was a Gallo-Roman water goddess, attested in the Orléanais region. In 1822, Jean-Baptiste Jollois, one of the founding fathers of archaeology in the region, carried out excavations on the so-called "fontaine de l'Étuvée", an ancient water-source which he artificially drained to rediscover if it could still supply the town's public water fountains. In a former cesspit, he found a roughly square (0.6m by 0.55m) stone tablet with a well-preserved votive inscription, datable by its style to the 2nd century. It reads: :::: :::: :::: :::: :::: :::: :"To August Acionna, Capillus son of Illiomarus fferedthis portico with these ornaments, in willing and right fulfillment of his vow"The original stela was deposited in the new Musée historique d'Orléans on its discovery and, though the original has since disappeared, it is still known from drawings and lithographs Jollois made of it and from a plaster-cast of it now in the Orléans museum. Acionna is not attested in any othe ...
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