Vesuna
Umbrian · deity · Iguvine Umbrian religion; 3rd 1st c. BCE · deity
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 Popricus
Sources
- Iguvine Tablets, Tabula IV 3-13, 25-26.
- Reference discussion of the Puemonos/Vesuna pair, the shared sheep offering, the *ues- etymology, and the Marsian coin.
- 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.