Nemausus

In Gallo-Roman religion, Nemausus (Greek Νέμαυσος) was the local patron god of the Gallic oppidum of Nemausus, the hill-fort later refounded as a colonia under Roman rule, now Nîmes, France. His cultus was a focal point in the extensive cultural complex in the center of Nîmes, established no later than the 2nd century BC and continuing in the Roman era.

Several inscriptions name Nemausus as the recipient of votive offerings, often in association with other deities and the spring around which civic life developed in Nîmes. He seems to have served both as the source personified and therefore the provider of life-giving water, and as its defender, a role that reached its apex when an inscription of the 2nd–3rd century CE places Nemausus next to an instantiation of Jupiter and endows him with Mars-like attributes. (For clarity, in this article Nemausus will refer to the god, and the modern name Nîmes to the city.)