Brigantia (goddess)
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Brigantia was a goddess worshipped in Roman Britain, generally understood as the tutelary deity of the Brigantes, the large tribal confederation of northern Britain. She is known only from epigraphy a
Relief of Brigantia from Birrens, with the attributes of Minerva and Victoria (National Museum of Scotland, RIB 2091)
Altar to Jupiter Dolichenus and Caelestis Brigantia from Corbridge, on a 1910 postcard
Minerva
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Minerva is the Roman goddess of wisdom, justice, law, victory, and the sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy. She is also a goddess of warfare, though with a focus on strategic warfare, rather than the
Brigantia (goddess)
…her with a Roman goddess, most often Victoria. The best-known monument, a relief from Birrens in southern Scotland, shows her with the attributes of Minerva and Victoria. Her name is cognate with that of the Brigantes themselves, and with the name of the Irish goddess Brigid. How closely the two goddesses…
Fresco of Minerva from Herculaneum (1st century AD)
Mosaic of the Minerva of Peace in the Library of Congress
Minerva with an Owl, Mainz
Painting of Minerva visiting the Muses