In
Gallo-Roman religion, Ancamna was a goddess worshipped particularly in the valley of the river
Moselle. She was commemorated at
Trier and
Ripsdorf as the consort of
LenusMars,[1] and at
Möhn as the consort of Mars
Smertulitanus.[2][3] At Trier, altars were set up in honour of Lenus Mars, Ancamna and the genii of various pagi of the
Treveri, giving the impression of Lenus Mars and Ancamna as tribal protectors honoured in an officially organized cult.[4][5] Among the few statuettes left as
votive offerings at the sanctuary of Mars Smertulitanus and Ancamna at Möhn is one of a genius cucullatus like those offered to the Xulsigiae at the Lenus Mars temple complex in Trier.[6]
Inciona is also apparently invoked along with Lenus Mars
Veraudunus on a bronze ex voto from Luxembourg;[7] it is unclear what connection, if any, exists between Inciona and Ancamna. Jufer and Luginbühl link Ancamna with two other consorts of the Gaulish Mars,
Litavis and
Nemetona, noting that none of these appear to be warrior goddesses themselves; instead, they suggest that Ancamna might have been associated with a
spring.[3] Edith Wightman considers the couple Mars
Loucetius and
Nemetona to be "closely similar to if not identical with, Lenus and Ancamna".[8]
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abNicole Jufer & Thierry Luginbühl. 2001. Les dieux gaulois : répertoire des noms de divinités celtiques connus par l'épigraphie, les textes antiques et la toponymie. Editions Errance, Paris. pp.14, 21. (in French)
^Two such surviving inscriptions were published in Finke (1927) "Neue Inschriften," Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission 17: inscriptions 12 and 13.