Satiada was a Celtic goddess worshipped in Roman Britain. She is known from a single, unadorned altar-stone dedicated to her at Chesterholm (Vindolanda).Vindolanda at www.roman-britain.org The inscription reads: DEAE / SAIIADAE / CVRIA TEX / TOVERDORVM / V·S·L·M "To the goddess Satiada, the council of the Textoverdi willingly and deservedly fulfilled their vow."B. Collingwood and R.P. Wright. The Roman Inscriptions of Britain. Oxford. RIB 1965. Quoted at www.roman-britain.org
The Textoverdi, whose curia left this altar, are otherwise unknown.
The name on the stone may alternatively be read as Sattada (the form used by Jufer and LuginbühlNicole Jufer & Thierry Luginbühl (2001). Les dieux gaulois : répertoire des noms de divinités celtiques connus par l'épigraphie, les textes antiques et la toponymie. Paris: Editions Errance. . p.61.), Saitada or Saiiada. If it is read as Satiada, the name may conceivably be related to the Proto-Celtic *sāti- ‘saturation’ or *satjā- ‘swarm’.Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales. "Proto-Celtic—English lexicon ." (See also this page for background.)
References
External links Vindolanda & Roman Army Museum, England