Gobannus

Cobannus or Gobanos is the name of God wrought among the Gauls. His name means "blacksmith".

The God Cobannus were devoted several statues that were placed together with a bronze vessel at an undisclosed location in France found in the late 1980s. A consecration inscription is preserved on one of the items. These artifacts were brought illegally to the United States and are now in the Getty Center in California. A Dedikationsinschrift from Fontenay- près -Vézelay, Roman Gallia Lugdunensis, is also dedicated to Augustus Cobannus. A variant of the name Gobanos Calling inscription dates from Canterbury in Kent; further evidence of Gobanos may have been encoded in the Bernese zinc tablets.

The Gallic God is related to the Welsh smith god Govannon and the Irish smith god Goibniu.

The name derives from the Celtic root * gobn̩n / gobenn ​​, Old Irish gob ( a) e, genitive gobann, mittelkymrisch gof, plural goveyn (all "blacksmith" ), from