Gobannus

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Gobannus in Roman Gaul was the god of smiths. 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, California, and he is mentioned in an inscription found in the 1970s in Fontenay-près-Vézelay, reading AVG(VSTO) SAC(RVM) [DE]O COBANNO, i. e. dedicated to Augustus and Deus Cobannus. The best preserved dedication to Gobannus is found on the Berne Zinc tablet.

The name is from a Proto-Celtic word for smith, *gobann-; the name of the god is also continued in Old Irish Goibniu and Welsh Govannon; in Modern Irish "smith" is gabha (genetive gabhann, dative gabhainn, plural gaibhne, genetive plural gabhann).

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