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38 an altar in the museum of Périgueux, Dordogne, set up by a priest of the altar of Lyons. The inscription reads [Tutelæ Vesonnæ] et deo Apollini Cobledulitavo. . . v. s. l. m. The name of Litavis may be safely regarded as that of one of the most prominent deities of the Lingones, and, as derivatives of this name are found among the Aeduans, her worship probably extended to the latter tribe as well.

In the zone now under consideration there are two other names of goddesses that are found mainly along with the Latin names Mercurius and Apollo. There are Rosmerta, named along with Mercury, and Sirona, named along with Apollo. On an inscription at Aix ( 308) Vssiae Ros[mertae?] Mercuri[o] v.s.l.m., the name may perhaps appear, but the reading is here doubtful and Hirschfeld reads: ... us S[yn]eros? The name, however, certainly exists on an inscription at Gissey-le-Vieil, dép. Côte-d’Or, arrond. Semur, canton Vitteaux, dioc. Autun ( 2831), Aug(usto) sa[c(rum)] Deæ Rosm[er]tae. On an inscription at Alise-Sainte-Reine it is doubtfiil whether the inscription should read [Ro]sme[rtae] or Sme[rtullo]. On an inscription at Langres (5677) we have Deo Mercurio et Rosmerte, and at Grand (5939) [Merc]urio et [Ros]mertae. At Worms (6222) we have Deo Mercuri(o) et Rosmerte, and at Alzey (6263) a similar reading has been conjectured as [Deo Merc]urio et R[osmerte]. A similar conjecture has been made with respect to an inscription of Spechbach, near Lobenfeld, on the right bank of the Rhine (gemarkung Neurott) (6388) [Mercu]rio [et Rios]mert(a)e. At Cologne these two deities are certainly named together ( 402). Mercu[rio et Ros]merte; also at Andemach, where there are two inscriptions, 681, Merc[urio et] Rosmertae, and 682, Me[rcurio et R]o[smertae]. Similarly at Hüttigweiler (750), [Mercu]rio [et Ro]sm[e]r[tae]. Near Nider-Emmel, Zumeth, Bemkastel, we have D[eo] Me[rc]urio [et] Ro[s]me[rtae], also 862, Mer[curio e]t Rosm[ertae], and 863, Deo Mercurio et d(e)æ [R]osmertae. There is a similar inscription at Reinsport on the Moselle, between Trêves and Bernkastel, Deo Mer[c]urio et Rosme[r]te.