Sequana Dedications at the Seine Springs -- Twelve Latin Inscriptions

A Good Works Translation from EDCS and Heidelberg Controls

Sequana is the goddess of the Seine springs, known above all from Latin dedications at the sanctuary near the river's source. These inscriptions preserve the cult in its practical form: vows, gifts, divine prompting, family concern, freed or servile donors, and the repeated address to the goddess.

Translation

Ergolding Fragment

Sequana and ...rnus.

Belatulla, Daughter of Vectius

To the goddess Sequana: Belatulla, daughter of Vectius, fulfilled her vow willingly.

Broken Dedication to Sequana

To the goddess Sequana...

Dedication by Divine Prompting

To the goddess Sequana, by prompting.

Fragmentary Dedication to Sequana

To the goddess Sequana (?)...

Clementia Montiola

To the goddess Sequana: Clementia Montiola fulfilled her vow willingly and deservedly.

Flavius Flavinus for His Nephew

Sacred to Augustus, to the goddess Sequana: Flavius Flavinus, for the safety of Flavius Lunaris, his nephew, fulfilled his vow from a vow, willingly and deservedly.

Damaged Dedication for C. M...

Sacred to Augustus, to the goddess Sequana, for C. M...: he or she fulfilled the vow willingly and deservedly.

Mariola

Mariola, daughter of Maiumilius, fulfilled her vow to the goddess Sequana willingly and deservedly.

Rufus' Gift

To the goddess Sequana: Rufus gave this.

Hilariclus for Hilarianus

To the goddess Sequana: Hilariclus, slave of Claudius Avitus, set this up for Hilarianus, his son, and fulfilled his vow willingly and deservedly.

Bare Dedication to Sequana

To the goddess Sequana.

Reader Note

The core is the Seine-springs group: repeated Latin dedications to Dea Sequana, often abbreviated as D(eae) Seq(uanae). The inscriptions do not preserve a myth of Sequana. They preserve cult behavior: people make vows, repay them, give gifts, act after divine prompting, and ask for safety or benefit in family relations.

The dossier keeps the Latin status visible. These are not Gaulish-language texts. Their Celtic value lies in the goddess's name, the spring sanctuary, and the local healing-water cult that gathered these acts of devotion.

Colophon

This page translates twelve relevant Latin records from the inspected EDCS Sequana query for the Continental Celtic expansion of the Good Works Library. The English is source-close: the goddess's name remains visible, vow formulae are translated consistently, and broken or uncertain source readings are not completed into smooth prose.

Compiled and formatted for the Good Works Library by the New Tianmu Anglican Church, 2026.

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Source Text: EDCS Sequana Query Corpus With Heidelberg Controls

Latin source text from the inspected EDCS Sequana query and selected Heidelberg inscription controls. This page presents twelve relevant Sequana cult records and excludes personal-name, ethnic, geographic, and military-diploma query hits.

1. EDCS-03000720 / HD050376, Ergolding

Evidence: AE 1994, 01334.

Sequana et [3]rnus

Source-close rendering:

Sequana and ...rnus.

2. EDCS-09701074 / HD013798, Sources de la Seine

Evidence: CIL 13, 02860.

De(ae) Sequana(e)
Belatulla Vectii fi(lia)
v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens)

Source-close rendering:

To the goddess Sequana: Belatulla, daughter of Vectius, fulfilled her vow willingly.

3. EDCS-09701075 / HD013801, Sources de la Seine

Evidence: CIL 13, 02857.

[D]eae Sequ[anae

Source-close rendering:

To the goddess Sequana...

4. EDCS-10501849, Sources de la Seine

Evidence: CIL 13, 02858.

D(eae) Seq(u)an(ae) de
mon(itu)

Source-close rendering:

To the goddess Sequana, by prompting.

5. EDCS-10501850, Sources de la Seine

Evidence: CIL 13, 02859.

D(e)ae [Seq(uanae?)

Source-close rendering:

To the goddess Sequana (?)...

6. EDCS-10501851, Saint-Germain

Evidence: CIL 13, 02861.

D(eae) Sequan(a)e Clem(entia) M/ont/iol(a) v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito)

Source-close rendering:

To the goddess Sequana: Clementia Montiola fulfilled her vow willingly and deservedly.

7. EDCS-10501852, Sources de la Seine

Evidence: CIL 13, 02862.

Aug(usto) sac(rum)
d(e)ae Seq(uanae)
Fl(avius) Flav(i)n(us)
pro sal(ute)
Fl(avi) Luna(ris)
nep(otis) sui
ex voto
v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito)

Source-close rendering:

Sacred to Augustus, to the goddess Sequana: Flavius Flavinus, for the safety of Flavius Lunaris, his nephew, fulfilled his vow from a vow, willingly and deservedly.

8. EDCS-10501853, Sources de la Seine

Evidence: CIL 13, 02863.

Aug(usto) sac(rum) d<e=O>a(e?)
{bro}
Se<q=C>uan(ae)
pro(!)
C() M[3]
v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito)

Source-close rendering:

Sacred to Augustus, to the goddess Sequana, for C. M...: he or she fulfilled the vow willingly and deservedly.

9. EDCS-10501854, Sources de la Seine

Evidence: CIL 13, 02864.

Mariola Maiu/mi<l=I>i [f]il(ia) d<e=I>a(e) S<e=I>qu[a]/n{n}(ae) vo(tum) sol(vit)
lib(ens) merit(o)

Source-close rendering:

Mariola, daughter of Maiumilius, fulfilled her vow to the goddess Sequana willingly and deservedly.

10. EDCS-10501855, Saint-Germain

Evidence: CIL 13, 02865.

Dea(e) Sequana(e) Rufus donavit

Source-close rendering:

To the goddess Sequana: Rufus gave this.

11. EDCS-12300079 / HD062689, findspot not specified in EDCS display

Evidence: CIL 13, 11575; AE 1907, 00103.

Deae Sequanae
Hilariclus Cl(audi)
Aviti serv<u=O>s
pro Hilariano
filio posuit
v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito)

Source-close rendering:

To the goddess Sequana: Hilariclus, slave of Claudius Avitus, set this up for Hilarianus, his son, and fulfilled his vow willingly and deservedly.

12. EDCS-47500478, Saint-Germain

Evidence: HD-style EDCS display without further printed citation in the captured query.

D(e)ae Sequana(e)

Source-close rendering:

To the goddess Sequana.

Source Colophon

The EDCS Sequana query was captured and inspected on 2026-05-14 at Tulku/Tools/celtic/sources/continental_batch_2026-05-14/edcs_sequana_cluster/edcs_sequana_query.json. Five Heidelberg controls were captured the same day in the same source folder: edh_HD050376.html, edh_HD013798.html, edh_HD013801.html, edh_HD081603.html, and edh_HD062689.html. EDCS is used here as a discovery and control route, not as a replacement for the printed corpora named in each record.

Five EDCS query hits were excluded from the translated body: EDCS-04201184, where Sequanae matri appears in a family funerary context; EDCS-08501647, where Sequanae belongs to the personal name of Pompeia Cocca Andebrocirigis Sequana; EDCS-10500945, where Seq(uanae) identifies a woman as a citizen of the Sequani; EDCS-10801006, where Sequanam versus appears as a geographic direction toward the Seine; and EDCS-12300259, a military diploma whose long text is not a Sequana cult dedication. No EDCS or Heidelberg images are reproduced.

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