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[edit] Tidying

I removed "She may have been married to Esus. A similar goddess was Andarta." because there is no basis for those statements that I am aware of. This goddess is known from a single bronze statue, with a Gaulish inscription. --Nantonos 9 July 2005 17:29 (UTC)

This is pretty waffly as well - who says it - sources

"Some speculate that there could also have been a male god called Artos, of a similar nature to Artio, from whom Artorius and Arthur are derived"

I removed

"She was often called Artio of Muri. "

on the grounds that Muri is actually the place near Berne where this one statue was found. --Nantonos 00:13, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] What was the nominative form of the name?

I notice a more significant problem - the name is wrong. The actual inscription is Deae Artioni which is in the dative case. In Gaulish, occulsive themes can end in -i (which would give a nominative Artion) and themes in -a can also, at a later date, end in -i which would give a nominative Artiona. Either way, this goddess is not called Artio, which would (besides being more likely masuline) give a dative Artiui. --Nantonos 00:32, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

On further reflection, if the name is Gaulish but the syntax is Latin, a dative Artioni would give an i-stem nominative *Artionis or an n-stem nominative *Artio. That would perhap produce a Gaulish *Artiu. This is unusal for a female name, but I withdraw my dispute. --Nantonos 19:59, 17 October 2005 (UTC)