Aulisua

Berber · deity · antiquity · deity

Aulisua is among the best-attested indigenous gods of Roman Mauretania, named in about five Latin dedications that qualify him as sanctus ('holy'). Three of these were set up at Pomaria and Ain Khial by an officer of the ala of Pomarienses explorers, troops recruited among the local Moors, which once suggested a warrior god; but a further text from Volubilis, dedicated by a freedman shoemaker, shows him rather as a broad protective and tutelary deity of the Mauri. His unusually wide geographic spread, from Caesariensis to Tingitana, makes him the most territorially significant of the native Berber gods known from epigraphy.

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