Tutela
Tutela is a heroine and a slightly disguised representation of the goddess Juno. She shows regal, military and protective traits, apart from the sexual ones. She is a divine tutelary goddess, a divine queen.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 200 BCE
- Attested period
- -200 – 400
- Historical notes
- Core period of Roman history.
Relationships
- aspect of
- Juno
- co occurs with
- Iuppiter tutor, Hercules tutator, Juno Caprotina, Juno Sespeis
- syncretized with
- Vesunna
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“In fact, the legend presents a heroine, Tutela, who is a slightly disguised representation of the goddess: the request of the Latin dictator would mask an attempted evocatio of the tutelary goddess of Rome. Tutela indeed shows regal, military and protective traits, apart from the sexual ones.”
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“In the Imperial period the goddess Tutela received her own distinct cultus in the form of rituals and temples. The Flavian dynasty in particular cultivated Tutela. On a coin of 71 AD, Tutela is represented by a woman with two children.”
#10583 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In inscriptions found in Périgueux, Vesunna is identified with the Roman guardian goddess Tutela.”
#27052 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5