And speaking of Ispania:
From Jan Gruter’s “Ancient inscriptions of the entire Roman world, edited in the most complete assemblage” (Inscriptiones antiquae totius orbis romani, in absolutissimum corpus redactae) we have the following information:
This inscription appears near Monte Furado in Gallicia in the province of Lugo (where later the Suevi appear to have settled. Incidentally, these Suevi left interesting names behind. For example you can see Guitiriz (supposedly from the name of Witiricus, a Suevian) or nearby towns such as Becin, Buriz, Mariz, Guimil, Petin or Parga.
Another inscription to the same Jupiter appears in the area:
This picture comes from Juan Francisco de Masdeu’s Historia crítica de España y de la cultura Española, en todo genero (volume 5 part II).
We hear that “Jupiter Ladicus” was the Jupiter equated with a Celtiberian mountain-god and worshipped as the spirit of Mount Ladicus in Gallaecia, northwest Iberia, preserved in the toponym Codos de Ladoco.
Why was the mountain referred to as Lada? If, as Dlugosz would have it, Yesse or Yassa was Jove or Jupiter and Lada was His Guardian, then the phrase Alado gardzyna yesse comes to mind here.
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