Redon

Illyrian · deity · Illyrian religion (Paleo Balkan); Roman period attestation · deity

Redon was a tutelary deity worshipped in the harbour towns of the southern Illyrian coast (modern Albania and northern Montenegro). His name appears on the autonomous coinage of Lissos, where he is shown wearing the petasos, the broad traveller's hat that links him to movement, trade and the sea, and on votive inscriptions at Scodra, Daorson and Roman Dyrrhachium. A striking testimony comes from Santa Maria di Leuca in Apulia, where two dedications were set up by the crews of Roman merchant ships manned by Illyrians, marking Redon as the guardian invoked for safe passage across the Adriatic. The Albanian headland Kepi i Rodonit near Durrës, often interpreted as the site of a former coastal sanctuary, preserves the god's name into modern toponymy.

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