1) Inscriptions

a) North-east of Gaul

Treveri

Rosmerta and Mercurius were honoured particularly by the tribe of the Treveri. Seven inscriptions indeed pay homage to them, such as in Reinsporth: In h(onorem) d(omus) d(ivinae), Deo Mer[c]urio et Rosme[r]te Docci(i) Apr[o]ssus et Accep[t]us IIIIIIviri (seviri) A[u]gusta[l(es)] v(otum) [solverunt] l(ibentes) [m(erito)] ;⁸⁴⁴ Wasserbillig: Deo Mercurio [et deae Ros]mertae aedem c[um signis orna]mentisque omn[ibus (fecit or restituit?) Acceptus tabul[arius sevir] augustal[is], item hospitalia [sacrorum cele]brandorum gr[atuita sibi poste]risque suis ded[icavit] ;⁸⁴⁵ Niedaltdorf: Mercurio et Rosmer[tae] Messor Cani libertus, ‘To Mercurius and Rosmerta, Messor, freed from Canus’ ;⁸⁴⁶ Niederemmel: In h(onorem) d(omus) d(ivinae), D[eo] Me[rc]urio [et] Ro[s]me[rtae aed?]em […] da[…] n[tiu]s Pr[ud]ens [e]x iu[ss]u posuit ; [In h(onorem) d(omus) d(ivinae)] Deo Mer[curio e]t Rosm[ertae A]diuto[rius Ur]sulus [v. s.] l. m. ; In h(onorem) d(omus) d(ivinae) Deo Mercurio et d(e)ae [R]osmertae Mer[curiali]s Aug(usti) lib(ertus), [adiutor t]abula[riorum v.] s. l. m. ⁸⁴⁷ and Andernach: In h(onorem) d(omus) d(ivinae) Mer[urio et ] Rosmertae a[ram cum] signi du[obus] Flavia Pri[mula] v(otum) s(ovit) l(ibens) [m(erito)], ‘In the honour of the Divine House, to Mercurius and Rosmerta, an altar with two statues in bronze Flavia Primula offered (this) paying his vow willingly and deservedly’.⁸⁴⁸ Most of the dedications beginning with the votive formulas In h.d.d. and deo/dea, they can be dated from the first half of the 3rd c. AD.⁸⁴⁹