In Gallo-Roman religion, the Xulsigiae were tripleGodchecker.com entry goddesses worshipped at the healing-spring shrine in Augusta Treverorum (present-day Trier). Edith Wightman suggests that they "may be local nymphs of the spring"; on the other hand, she also links their name to that of the Suleviae, whom she characterizes as "domestic goddesses".Edith Mary Wightman (1970). Roman Trier and the Treveri. Rupert Hart-Davis, London. Their temple, a smaller shrine near the monumental Lenus Mars temple,Kraftorte und Kultplätze in Rheinland Pfalz, Deutschland. has also yielded clay figures of the genii cucullati.Carlie Sigel. "Exhibition Paper for the Genius Cucullatus." The name itself is attested only from one inscription, where it accompanies that of Lenus Mars:
LENO MARTI ET XVLSIGIIS L VIRIVS DISE TO V S L M, retrieved 29 March 2008.
"To Lenus Mars and the Xulsigiae, Lucius Virius Diseto freely and deservedly fulfilled his vow."
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