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Post by crowman on Jan 4, 2011 14:54:31 GMT -1
Megli, thanks for your reply, yet another piece in the jigsaw for me. Continuing researching the genius cucullatti and cuda I just had a look here... www.unc.edu/~css/Exhibition_paper.htmlspecifically "Daglingworth, Gloucestershire, now in Corinium Museum, Cirencester No. A. 197 A plough turned up this tablet of local yellow oolite in a field near the foundations of an ancient building. A woman sits with a large oval object which may be eggs or fruit and receives a larger object from a man who faces her. He is part of a trio of cloaked males. Inscribed below the quartet is the word “CVDAE” which is presumed to be the name of the mother goddess" So Cuda was inscribed "CVDAE". Thought to be a mother goddess to the Dobunni - a late iron age tribe that I associate with but also north of hadrians wall, thought to be taken there by the romans....I'd be interested in following this up linguistically if anyone can give me a hand?
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Post by megli on Jan 4, 2011 15:20:21 GMT -1
So Cuda was inscribed "CVDAE". Thought to be a mother goddess to the Dobunni - a late iron age tribe that I associate with but also north of hadrians wall, thought to be taken there by the romans....I'd be interested in following this up linguistically if anyone can give me a hand? CVDAE just means 'to Cuda', it's the so-called dative case of the word---Latin (and British, and lots of other languages like Russian, Greek, German etc) alter the endings of words to convey the grammatical role those words perform in a phrase. The 'dative' endings are used to express the idea 'to...' as in 'to a house, 'to the sea', 'to Jennifer' etc. God-names in the dative case are a standard feature of ancient altar inscriptions and so on. Does that help?
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Post by crowman on Jan 4, 2011 15:32:03 GMT -1
yes it does, much clearer now...thankyou
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