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Belatucadros

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548: 20: 540: 79:. Dedications to Balatocadrus, Balatucadrus, Balaticaurus, Balatucairus, Baliticaurus, Belatucairus, Belatugagus, Belleticaurus, Blatucadrus and Blatucairus are generally accepted as variants of the most common of these forms: Belatucadrus. Altars dedicated to him were usually small, simple and plain, leading to the suggestion that this god was mainly worshipped by people of low social status. His name never appears with a female consort and there is no certain extant representation of him. 264: 547: 257: 1034: 250: 233: 214: 195: 169: 150: 86:, may be epithets for a common general type of Celtic horned god. A horned head was found near the shrine of Belatucadros at 68:
and appears to have been worshipped by lower-ranked Roman soldiers as well as by Britons. In five inscriptions he is called
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Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani, Great Britain, Volume I, Fascicule 6. Hadrian's Wall West of the North Tyne, and Carlisle
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Fairless, K.J. (1984). "Three Religious Cults from the Northern Frontier Region". In Miket, R.; Burgess, C. (eds.).
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Between and Beyond the Wall. Essays on the Prehistory and History of North Britain in Honour of George Jobey
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and the name is frequently translated as "fair shining one" or "fair slayer."
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Belatucadros is known from approximately 28 inscriptions in the vicinity of
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Ross suggests that his name, and that of a similar local god,
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A black and white drawing of a stone block with a Latin inscription.
Kirkbride, Cumbria
deity
Celtic
Cumberland
Westmorland
Roman
Mars
Hadrian's Wall
Cocidius
Netherby, Cumbria


Ross 1967


Coulston & Phillips 1988
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