Abandinus - Epigraphic Evidence

Epigraphic Evidence

Abandinus is represented in Britain on a single altarstone. He is unknown throughout the rest of the Roman Empire and is therefore thought to have been a local god of the Roman fort at Godmanchester in Cambridgeshire, possibly associated with either a natural spring or a stream in the neighbourhood

The Roman fort at Godmanchester, a strategic site on Ermine Street at the crossing of the River Great Ouse, is thought to have been called Durovigutum . The god is known only from an inscribed bronze feather, very likely some sort of votive object, dedicated to him . The inscription on the bronze feather reads:

"DEO ABANDINO VATIAVCVS D S D"

• ‘To the god Abandinus, Vatiacus dedicates this out of his own funds’.