Gobannus (or Gobannos, the Gaulish form) was a Gallo-Roman god, whose name, denoting "the smith", is normally taken to identify him as patron of smiths. Gaulish or Gallic is the name given to the Celtic language that was spoken in Gaul before the Vulgar Latin of the late Roman Empire became For Gaul before the Roman conquest see Gaul. Roman Gaul consisted of an area of provincial rule in the Roman Empire, in modern day Patronage is the support encouragement privilege and often financial aid given by a person or an organization A smith, or metalsmith, is a person involved in the shaping of Metal objects

A number of statues dedicated to him are preserved, found together with a bronze cauldron dedicated to Deus Cobannos, in the late 1980s and illegally exported to the USA, now in the Getty Museum in the Getty Center, in California. Bronze is any of a broad range of Copper alloys, usually with Tin as the main additive but sometimes with other elements such as Phosphorus A cauldron or caldron (from Latin Caldarium, hot bath is a large Metal pot ( Kettle) for cooking and/or boiling The Getty Center in Brentwood Los Angeles California, USA, is the current home of part of the J ^[1] He is mentioned in an inscription found in the 1970s in Fontenay-près-Vézelay, reading AVG(VSTO) SAC(RVM) [DE]O COBANNO, i. Fontenay-près-Vézelay is a town and commune in the Yonne département, in France. e. dedicated to Augustus and Deus Cobannus. Augustus ( Latin: IMPERATOR·CAESAR·DIVI·FILIVS·AVGVSTVS September 23 63 BC – August 19 AD 14) born Gaius Octavius Thurinus, was

The name is from a Proto-Celtic word for smith, *goban-;^[2] the name of the god is also continued in Old Irish Goibniu and Welsh Gofannon. Phonological reconstruction Consonants The phonological changes from Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Celtic Consonants may be summarised as follows Old Irish is the name given to the oldest form of the Irish language, or rather the Goidelic languages, for which extensive written texts are possessed In Irish mythology Goibniu or Goibhniu (pronounced /ˈgovʲnʲu/ or 'Goive-nu' was a son of Brigid and Tuireann and the smith of For the Wales settlement see Gobannium. Gofannon was one of the deities worshipped by the ancient Celts. In Modern Irish "smith" is gabha, and in Modern Welsh it is gof. Irish (ga ''Gaeilge'' is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish. Welsh ( cy Cymraeg or cy y Gymraeg, kəmˈrɑːɨɡ and {{IPA|[ə ɡəmˈrɑːɨɡ]}}, is a member of the Brythonic branch of Celtic Abergavenny, in what is now south east Wales was the site of a Roman fort and settlement called Gobannium. Abergavenny (Y Fenni meaning Mouth of the River Gavenny, is a Market town in Monmouthshire, Wales. The Latin word castra, with its singular castrum, was used by the ancient Romans to mean buildings or plots of land reserved to or constructed for use as a military

Main article: Berne zinc tablet

The best preserved dedication to Gobannus is found on the Berne zinc tablet, where his name is written ΓΟΒΑΝΟ (in the dative and in Greek letters). The Berne Zinc tablet (also Gobannus tablet) was found in the 1980s in Berne. The Berne Zinc tablet (also Gobannus tablet) was found in the 1980s in Berne. The tablet was found in the 1980s in Berne. The city of Berne or Bern (, Berne, Berna, Romansh: Berna, Bernese German: Bärn) is the Bundesstadt ( Federal It is inscribed with an apparently Gaulish inscription

ΔΟΒΝΟΡΗΔΟ ΓΟΒΑΝΟ ΒΡΕΝΟΔΩΡ ΝΑΝΤΑΡΩΡ

Brenodor is probably a placename; Nantaror may refer to the Aare valley (containing as first element nanto- "valley"). Gaulish or Gallic is the name given to the Celtic language that was spoken in Gaul before the Vulgar Latin of the late Roman Empire became The Aar ( German Aare) a tributary of the Rhine, is the longest River that both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland. Dobnoredo seems to be an epitheton of Gobano, maybe composed of dubno- "world" (Old Irish dumh, c. An epithet (from Greek ἐπίθετον - epitheton, neut of ἐπίθετος - epithetos, "attributed added" is a f. Dumnorix, Donald) and rēdo- "travel" (Old Irish riad), or rēdā "chariot" i. Dumnorix (given on coins as Dubnoreix) was a chieftain of the Aedui, a Celtic tribe in Gaul in the 1st century B e. "world-traveller" or "world-charioteer", so that the inscription may mean approximately "to Gobannus, the world-traveller, dedicated by the people of Brennoduron in the Arura valley".

The tablet is made of an alloy unlike modern zinc, containing lead and iron as well as traces of copper, tin and cadmium (Rehren 1996). Zinc (ˈzɪŋk from Zink is a Metallic Chemical element with the symbol Zn and Atomic number 30 Characteristics Lead has a dull luster and is a dense, Ductile, very soft highly Iron (ˈаɪɚn is a Chemical element with the symbol Fe (ferrum and Atomic number 26 Copper (ˈkɒpɚ is a Chemical element with the symbol Cu (cuprum and Atomic number 29 Tin is a Chemical element with the symbol Sn (stannum and Atomic number 50 Cadmium (ˈkædmiəm is a Chemical element with the symbol Cd and Atomic number 48 It was concluded that the zinc of this tablet was collected from a furnace, where the metal is known to have aggregated, Strabo calling it pseudoarguros "mock silver"^[3], but it is believed that it was usually thrown away as worthless. Strabo ( Greek: Στράβων 63/64 BC – ca AD 24 was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher. Since the tablet is dedicated to the god of the smiths, it is not unlikely that such zinc remnants scraped from a furnace were collected by smiths and considered particularly smithcraft-related.

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References

• Rehren, Th. (1996) "A Roman zinc tablet from Bern, Switzerland: Reconstruction of the Manufacture", Archaeometry 94, The Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium on Archaeometry, Eds S. Demirci et al. , Ankara, pp 35-45.

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