Vagdavercustis
Sign in to savethumb|Sacrificial altar of dea Vagdavercustis dedicated by Titus Flavius Constans in Cologne 165 AD Vagdavercustis is a Germanic goddess known from a dedicatory inscription on an altar found at Cologne (Köln), Germany. The stone dates from around the 2nd century CE and is now in a museum in Cologne.
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thumb|Sacrificial altar of dea Vagdavercustis dedicated by Titus Flavius Constans in Cologne 165 AD Vagdavercustis is a Germanic goddess known from a dedicatory inscription on an altar found at Cologne (Köln), Germany. The stone dates from around the 2nd century CE and is now in a museum in Cologne.
== Name == The meaning of the name remains unclear. The element Ver-custis may be interpreted as the root wer- ('man') attached to the verbal noun *kusti- ('choice'; cf. Old Icelandic mann-kostr 'male virtue'), but the meaning of the suffix or epithet Vagda is uncertain.