Vesuna

Vesuna is an Umbrian goddess known from the oldest pair of Iguvine Tablets, where she is worshipped together with Puemonus Popricus and shares a single sheep with him. Her name is referred to a root meaning 'to pasture', and the shared victim is the substantial evidence for reading the pair as pastoral powers. A coin from Marsian territory carries her name, showing that she was not a purely Iguvine figure. The tablets associate her with Puemonus in cult; they do not make her his wife, and no marriage, parentage or sibling tie is recorded here.

Domains

• pastoralism
• fertility

Powers

• to receive her portion of the single victim divided with Puemonus Popricus

Relations

• ally: Puemonus PopricusJointly worshipped with Puemonus Popricus, with whom she shares a victim. The possessive phrasing of the inscription does not by itself establish marriage, descent or siblinghood, and none is asserted here.Iguvine Tablets, Tabula III 26-35; IV 1-33 — jointly worshipped, with portions of one sheep divided between them. (primary); Reference discussion: Puemonos Popricos and Vesuna appear as a divine pair only in Tabulae III and IV, the oldest of the Tablets. (secondary)

Sources

• Vesuna (Umbrian vesune) is a goddess worshipped jointly with Puemonus Popricus in the oldest Iguvine Tablets, receiving portions of the same sheep; her name is also attested on a coin from Marsian territory.: Iguvine Tablets, Tabula IV 3-13, 25-26. (primary); Reference discussion of the Puemonos/Vesuna pair, the shared sheep offering, the *ues- etymology, and the Marsian coin. (secondary); J. W. Poultney, The Bronze Tables of Iguvium (American Philological Association, 1959) — the English translation from which these tablet references were recorded; see data-sources/audits/lane-1/umbrian-census.tsv. (secondary)