Veraudunus is the name of a

Celtic god 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 ...

known only from two votive inscriptions found in

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. One of these inscriptions suggests that ‘Veraudunus’ may have been an epithet of the important Treveran god

Lenus Lenus (; E. Courtney (1995) reads the original dative form as in ''Musa Lapidaria: A Selection of Latin Verses'' 160, p. 152. agrees with dative in the following line.) was a Celtic god of healing, good fortune, and protection in battle, ...

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. In both inscriptions, Veraudunus is invoked along with Inciona. On the large stone slab from Mensdorf on the

Widdebierg

Widdebierg is a hill in the Communes of Luxembourg, commune of Be ...

, pictured at right, the god Veraudunus (DEO VERAVDVNO) and Inciona are invoked in honour of the imperial family in fulfilment of a vow made by Marcus Pl(autius?) Restitutus' mother Alpinia Lucana.Musée d'histoire et d'art, Luxembourg. 1974. ''Pierres sculptées et inscriptions de l'époque romaine'', catalogued by Eugénie Wilhelm, p.71. The second inscription is a small bronze votive plaque from Kaul in Luxembourg, which reads: : EO MAR Ibr>VERAVDVN(O) ET
INCION(A)E MI
TIVS PRIS
CINVS EX VOT(O) If the letters NO MAR can be restored as ''Leno Marti'', then ‘Veraudunus’ appears to be an epithet of

, the tribal protector of the

Treveri The Treveri (Gaulish language, Gaulish: *''Treweroi'') were a Germanic peoples, Germanic or Celts, Celtic tribe of the Belgae group who inhabited the lower valley of the Moselle (river), Moselle in modern day Germany from around 150 BCE, if not ea ...

who inhabited what is now Luxembourg. The name of the Widdebierg itself has been said to derive from ‘Veraudunus’.« Deux inscriptions indiquent qu'il enus Marsporte le surnom local de Veraudunus dont est dérivé le toponyme Widdenberg ». From a wall plaque at the Musée national d'histoire et d'art, Luxembourg.

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