Intarabus

Intarabus, also Entarabus, is a Celtic deity of Treverians, all known inscriptions are from a relatively limited space around Luxembourg. He is equated by the interpretatio romana with Mars, but possibly with the Celtic deity Narius.

Mythology

Intarabus is called in a total of nine dedicatory inscriptions. One of them was found on a statue from the mining area of Foy ( Tungri, Roman province of Gallia Belgica, Arrondissement of Bastogne in Belgium). Likewise, inscriptions in the former territory of Treverians, namely in Trier (Augusta Treverorum, Roman Gallia Belgica ) and Niersbach known. In Luxembourg there is a finding from the area of Echternach ( Treveri, Roman Gallia Belgica )

Another locality was Mackwiller ( Mediomatrici, Roman province Germania superior, Département Bas- Rhin) in Crooked Alsace, where he is nicknamed Narius. Was already in the 1st century AD here a sanctuary for the genius loci Narius Intarabus in connection with a source of local worship. In a Mithraeum, which was built in the 2nd century, the inscriptions testify to the common worship of Mithras and Narius Intarabus. In the second half of the 3rd century, the Mithraeum was destroyed and re- built in its place from the remaining components of a traditional Gallic temple of the holy spring enclosed now, lets resulting recognize that Mithraism was abandoned in favor of the ancient Celtic local deities had.

Etymology

The name is composed by Xavier Delamarre from the proto- Celtic words enter ( "between" ) and from (us ) ( "river "). However, the origin of the name by most scholars of is referred to as unexplained.