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In ancient Celtic polytheism, Verbeia was a goddess worshipped in Roman Britain. She is known from a single altar-stone dedicated to her at Ilkley ((RIB 635 )). She is considered to have been a deification of the River Wharfe.〔Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend, Miranda J. Green, Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1997〕 An image of a woman (also from Ilkley) may represent the goddess: she is depicted with an overlarge head and schematic features; she wears a long, pleated robe and she has two large snakes, represented as geometric zig-zags, which she grasps, one in each hand. ==Origins== The stone bearing the image thought to represent Verbeia now stands inside the All Saints Parish Church in Ilkley. The church is situated on the site of the Roman fort, which was itself thought to be named 'Verbeia' (not Olicana, as was previously thought).〔(Verbeia ), www.roman-britain.org〕 It was the Second Cohort of Lingones troops〔(''Cohors Secundae Lingonum'' ), www.roman-britain.org〕 stationed here during the second century AD who inscribed the above-mentioned altar-stone.〔(RIB 635 ), www.roman-britain.org〕 Anne Ross〔''Pagan Celtic Britain'', Anne Ross, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967, p. 279〕 compares this image with one of a goddess found in Mavilly-Mandelot, France, portrayed with a similar pleated garment, holding two snakes in one hand, on an altar associated with aquatic cults. Ross fails to mention that this region of France is where the Lingones, a Gaulish tribe from which the Roman troops were recruited, originated. It seems possible that the Mavilly altar is a precursor of the Verbeia altar. Some sources state,〔 however, that the Ilkley troops were recruited from the Lingones in northeast Italy; some of the tribe migrated across the Alps in around 400 BC Lingones. 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「Verbeia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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