Gontia (deity)

Gontia () was a Celtic goddess. She was the tutelary deity of the river Günz,Lauren Adams Gilmour, Pagans and Christians, Archaeopress, 2007, p. 24. near Günzburg in Germany. She is known from an inscription on a Roman-era altar at Günzburg () that reads Gontiae / sac(rum) / G(aius!) Iulius / Faventianus / (centurio) leg(ionis) I Ital(icae),L'Année épigraphique 1930, 74. 'Gaius Julius Faventianus, centurion of the Legio I Italica, (made) this offering to Gontia'.

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