Editing Damona (section)

== Inscriptions and dedications ==
There are several inscriptions relating to Damona,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hatt|first=Jean-Jacques|date=1983|title=Apollon guérisseur en Gaule. Ses origines, son caractère, les divinités qui lui sont associées - Chapitre II|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/racf_0220-6617_1983_num_22_3_2383|journal=Revue archéologique du Centre de la France|volume=22|issue=3|pages=185–218|doi=10.3406/racf.1983.2383}}</ref> including two inscriptions in Bourbon-Lancy (CIL 13, 02805), discovered in 1792.

:C (aius) Iulius Eporedirigis f (ilius) Magnus / pro L (ucio) Iulio Caleno filio / Bormoni and Damonae / vot (um) sol (vit)

and (CIL 13, 02806), where Damona is also included in dedications to [[Borvo]], (CIL 13, 02807) and (CIL 13, 02808):

:Borvoni and Damonae / T (itus) Severius Mo / destus [o] mnib (us) / h [o] n [orib (us)] and offi [ciis]


The other large site associated with Damona is Bourbonne-les-Bains, there are nine dedications to the goddess of the waters, including (CIL 13, 05911):

:Deo Apol / lini Borvoni / et Damonae / C (aius) Daminius / Ferox civis / Lingonus ex / voto

and (CIL 13, 05914):

:Borvoni / and Damon (ae) / Aemilia / Sex (ti) fil (ia) / M [3] S

with (CIL 13, 05921):

:Damonae Aug (ustae) / Claudia Mossia and C (aius) Iul (ius) Superstes fil (ius) / l (ocus) d (atus) ex d (ecreto) d (ecurionum) v (otum) s (olverunt) l ( ibentes) m (erito)



Damona also appears in dedications to Chassenay, associated with Albius and Alise-Sainte-Reine. An inscription was found bearing Damona's name in [[Alesia (city)|Alesia]] in 1962, where she was worshipped with Apollo Moritasgus<ref>{{Cite book|last=Le Gall|first=Joël.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7462836|title=Alésia : archéologie et histoire|date=1980|publisher=Fayard|isbn=2-213-00780-2|edition=Nouv. éd. rev. et augm|location=[Paris]|oclc=7462836}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Raepsaet-Charlier|first=Marie-Thérèse|date=2013|title=Alésia et ses dieux:: du culte d'Apollon Moritasgos à l'appartenance civique des Mandubiens à l'époque gallo-romaine|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/90004373|journal=L'Antiquité Classique|volume=82|pages=165–194|doi=10.3406/antiq.2013.3831 |jstor=90004373 |issn=0770-2817}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Beck|first=Noémie|url=https://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/documents/lyon2/2009/beck_n#q=damona&o=0&a=search|title=Goddesses in Celtic Religion: Cult and Mythology: A Comparative Study of Ancient Ireland, Britain and Gaul|year=2009|location=Lyon, France}}</ref> (CIL 13, 11233):

:Aug (usto) sacr (um) / deo Albio and Damonae Sex (tus) Mart (ius) / Cocillus ex iussu eius v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito)

and (CAG-21-01):

:Deo Apollini Moritasgo [and] / Damonae P (ublius) Pontius Apolli [naris]

Finally, there is an inscription in [[Rivières, Charente|Rivières]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Héron de Villefosse|first=Antoine|date=1918|title=Inscription romaine de Rivières (Charente)|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/crai_0065-0536_1918_num_62_6_74083|journal=Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres|volume=62|issue=6|pages=479–484|doi=10.3406/crai.1918.74083}}</ref>

   Jullia Malla Malluronis fîl (ia) numinibus Augustorum et deae Damonae Matuherginni (?) Ob memoriam Sulpiciae Silvanae filiae suae de suo posuit