Anzotica was the leading goddess of the Liburni, the seafaring people of the northern Dalmatian coast, and is most securely attested at Aenona (modern Nin in Croatia). The Liburnian pantheon was overwhelmingly female and intensely local, and Anzotica stands at its head as a goddess of love, beauty and fertility. Excavations on the peninsula by the Nin lagoon recovered a votive inscription bearing her name together with a sculpture assimilating her to the Roman Venus; from this the syncretic name Venus Ansotica was coined, expressing the fusion of an indigenous Liburnian goddess with the classical deity of love. Later scholarship has read the associated statue-group as an image of fertility, universal creation and motherhood, deepening the picture of Anzotica as a generative coastal mother-goddess rather than a mere provincial copy of Venus.