Sexarbores

Sexarbores is a Gallic god known only from inscriptions found in the Hautes-Pyrénées. Like the gods Abellio and Fagus, it could have been a deified tree.^[1]

Etymology[]

Sexarbores can be translated as "six-trees", so Sexarbores would be the god of six trees.

Inscriptions[]

Sexarbores is only known from inscriptions found in the , around Castelbiague and Arbas in France, whose forest probably fed the wood needs of the nearby city. Unlike most votive monuments of this region of Haute-Garonne, the altars in question give the names of divinities translated into Latin. Sexarbores seems to have been honored solely or mainly by Roman citizens, perhaps woodcutters.^[2]

• CIL, XIII, 129 (Arbas) : Sex/Arboribus, Q(uintus) Fufius / Germanus / u(otum) s(oluit)
• CIL, XIII, 132 (Castelbiague) : Ex uoto ; / Sexarbori / deo L(ucius) Domit(ius) / Censorinus / u(otum) s(oluit) l(ibens) m(erito)
• CIL, XIII, 175 (Castelbiague) : Sexs / arbori deo / T(itus) P(ompeius)/ [Clampanus / u(otum) s(oluit) l(ibens) m(erito)]

Sources[]

• R.Sablayrolles, Les dieux des bucherons à l'époque de la domination romaine, Protoindustrie et histoire des forêts, Actes du colloque (Loubière, 10-13 octobre 1990) dans Les Cahiers de l'Isard, Toulouse, 1992, P 15-26

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