Selvans
Etruscan · deity · archaic · Recorded classification
Etruscan god of the wilderness, woodland and boundary-stones, ancestor of the Roman Silvanus. Named on the Liver of Piacenza and in votive dedications guarding the edges of cultivated land.
Domains
- woodland and boundaries
Powers
- Guard boundaries and the wild edges of cultivated land
Epithets
- 𐌕𐌖𐌋𐌀𐌓𐌉𐌀𐌔 of the boundariesEtruscan votive dedication to Selvans (primary)
Relations
- council of: TiniaNamed on the Liver of Piacenza among the gods of Tinia's divided heaven.Liver of Piacenza (the region Selva within Tinia's celestial order) (primary)
Sources
- existence: Liver of Piacenza; votive inscriptions to Selvans (primary); de Grummond, Etruscan Myth (2006) (secondary)