Sucellus and Nantosuelta Dedications -- Nine Latin Inscriptions

A Good Works Translation from EDCS and Heidelberg Controls

Sucellus is a smaller but important Gallo-Roman divine-name lane. The records gathered here include a single explicit pairing with Nantosuelta, dedications to Sucellus alone, and syncretic or uncertain pairings with Silvanus. The English keeps the Latin formulas plain and leaves damaged names visible.

Translation

Malain Dedication of Resus

To the god Sucellus: Resus, son of Torogillus, fulfilled his vow for the sacred area willingly and deservedly.

Vienne Dedication of Gellia Iucunda

To the god Sucellus: Gellia Iucunda fulfilled her vow willingly and deservedly.

Sarrebourg Dedication to Sucellus and Nantosuelta

To the god Sucellus and to Nantosuelta: Bellausus, son of Massa, fulfilled his vow willingly and deservedly.

Yverdon-les-Bains Dedication to Sucellus Ipadcus

To Sucellus Ipadcus: he fulfilled his vow willingly and deservedly.

Worms Dedication to Sucellus Silvanus

To the god Sucellus Silvanus: Tiberius GPIP...

Augst Dedication to Sucellus Silvanus

In honor of the divine house, to the god Sucellus Silvanus (?): Spartus (?). The place was granted by decree of the decurions.

Metz Bare Dedication

To the god Sucellus.

York Bare Dedication

To the god Sucellus.

Mehadia Dedication for Marcus Sedatus Severianus

To the god Sucellus (?), for the safety of Marcus Sedatus Severianus, legate of Augustus.

Reader Note

The dossier is smaller than the Epona, Matronae, Belenus, Sequana, and Rosmerta clusters, but it closes an important named-god lane. The key record is Sarrebourg: Deo Sucello / Nantosueltae, the explicit Sucellus and Nantosuelta pairing. The other records show Sucellus as a recipient of vows in Gaul, Germania, Britain, and Dacia.

The page does not expand Sucellus or Nantosuelta into a mythic narrative. The evidence here is dedicatory: divine names, vow formulae, occasional local epithets, and a few civic or official contexts.

Colophon

This page translates nine Latin records from the inspected EDCS Sucello query and checks the single EDCS Nantosueltae query hit for the Continental Celtic expansion of the Good Works Library. The English is source-close: damaged names stay damaged, uncertain restorations are marked, and common vow formulae are translated consistently.

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

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Source Text: EDCS Sucello and Nantosueltae Query Corpus With Heidelberg Controls

Latin source text from the inspected EDCS Sucello and Nantosueltae queries and selected Heidelberg inscription controls. This page presents all nine displayed Sucellus records in the captured query, including the single Nantosuelta record.

1. EDCS-05200534 / HD024714, Malain

Evidence: CAG 21 02, p. 9; CAG 21 02, p. 464; ILingons 00031.

Deo Sucello
aream Resus
Torogilli
v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito)

Source-close rendering:

To the god Sucellus: Resus, son of Torogillus, fulfilled his vow for the sacred area willingly and deservedly.

2. EDCS-08501559, Vienne

Evidence: CIL 12, 01836; ILN 05.01, 00022; CAG 38 03, p. 387.

Deo Sucello
Gellia Iucund[a]
v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito)

Source-close rendering:

To the god Sucellus: Gellia Iucunda fulfilled her vow willingly and deservedly.

3. EDCS-10601507 / HD023042, Sarrebourg

Evidence: CIL 13, 04542; D 04614; CAG 57 01, p. 715; AE 1896, 00009; AE 1896, +00044; AE 1896, 00048; AE 1907, +00201.

Deo Sucello
Nantosuelt(a)e
Bellausus Mas/s(a)e filius v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito)

Source-close rendering:

To the god Sucellus and to Nantosuelta: Bellausus, son of Massa, fulfilled his vow willingly and deservedly.

4. EDCS-10800460 / HD080277, Yverdon-les-Bains

Evidence: CIL 13, 05057; TitHelv 00110.

Sucello
Ipadco
v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito)

Source-close rendering:

To Sucellus Ipadcus: he fulfilled his vow willingly and deservedly.

5. EDCS-11000232 / HD054767, Worms

Evidence: CIL 13, 06224.

Deo Su/cel(l)o
[S]ilvano
Ti(berius) GPIP

Source-close rendering:

To the god Sucellus Silvanus: Tiberius GPIP...

6. EDCS-11201854 / HD025567, Augst

Evidence: Finke 00134; RISch 02, 00239; AE 1925, 00005; AE 1925, +00079; AE 1926, +00040; TitHelv 00573.

In honor(em)
d(omus) d(ivinae) deo Su/cello Silv(ano?)
Spart(us?) l(ocus) d(atus) d(ecreto) d(ecurionum)

Source-close rendering:

In honor of the divine house, to the god Sucellus Silvanus (?): Spartus (?). The place was granted by decree of the decurions.

7. EDCS-13303413 / HD076796, Metz

Evidence: ILTG 00565; Finke 00087.

Deo Sucello

Source-close rendering:

To the god Sucellus.

8. EDCS-25100849, York

Evidence: RIB 02.03, 02422,21; D 04689.

Deo
Sucel(l)o

Source-close rendering:

To the god Sucellus.

9. EDCS-26600771 / HD044120, Mehadia

Evidence: CIL 03, 01575; IDR 03.01, 00070; ILD 01.01, 00187; AE 1998, 01108.

[D(eo)] Suc(ello?)
pro salute
M(arci) Sedat(i)
Severiani
leg(ati) Aug(usti)

Source-close rendering:

To the god Sucellus (?), for the safety of Marcus Sedatus Severianus, legate of Augustus.

Source Colophon

The EDCS Sucello and Nantosueltae queries were captured and inspected on 2026-05-14 at Tulku/Tools/celtic/sources/continental_batch_2026-05-14/edcs_sucellus_nantosuelta_cluster/edcs_sucello_query.json and edcs_nantosueltae_query.json. Seven Heidelberg controls were captured the same day in the same source folder: edh_HD024714.html, edh_HD023042.html, edh_HD080277.html, edh_HD054767.html, edh_HD025567.html, edh_HD076796.html, and edh_HD044120.html. EDCS is used here as a discovery and control route, not as a replacement for the printed corpora named in each record.

The Nantosueltae query returned only the Sarrebourg Sucellus/Nantosuelta inscription already present in the Sucello query. No EDCS or Heidelberg images are reproduced.

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