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Artaius is a Celtic epithet〔Xavier Delamarre (2003). ''Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise.'' Paris: Editions Errance, p.56〕 applied to the Roman god Mercury during the Romano-Celtic period. It is known from a single inscription from Beaucroissant in the Isère: ::MERCVRIO ::AVG ARTAIO ::SACR ::SEX GEMINIVS ::CVPITVS ::EX VOTO〔''Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum'' XII: 2199.〕 :''"To the august Mercury Artaius, Sextus Geminius Cupitus (has dedicated this) sacred (stone) in fulfillment of a vow."'' In Gaulish, the word ''artos'' means ‘bear’, and ''artaios'' would have been a derivative〔 (meaning something like ‘ursine’). Miranda Green considers Mercury Artaius to have been a bear-god.〔Miranda Green (2004). ''The gods of the Celts.'' Sparkford, UK: Sutton Publishing, p.174.〕 It is also possible that Artaius is derived from a place name (so that, as an "Artaian Mercury", he would only indirectly have any association with bears - if at all) - the inscription above was discovered at a location that was once called Artay and there is a similarly named town, Artaix, in Saône-et-Loire.〔Longnon, Auguste, Les noms de lieu de la France, Paris, 1920, p. 114.〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Artaius」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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