ArtahaArtaha (also spelled Artehe is the name of an ancient god that was worshiped in Southern Gaul

Gaul

Gaul was a region of Western Europe during the Iron Age and Roman era, encompassing present day France, Luxembourg and Belgium, most of Switzerland, the western part of Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the left bank of the Rhine. The Gauls were the speakers of...

, in the region of Aquitania

Aquitania

Aquitania may refer to:* the territory of the Aquitani, a people living in Roman times in what is now Aquitaine, France* Aquitaine, a region of France roughly between the Pyrenees, the Atlantic ocean and the Garonne, also a former kingdom and duchy...

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The theonym is recorded in several inscriptions from Saint-Pé-d'Ardet

Saint-Pé-d'Ardet

Saint-Pé-d'Ardet is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...

, where there seems to have been a Gallo-Roman-era cult center for the god:

CIL 13, 64

Lexeia Odanni f(ilia) Artehe v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito)

CIL 13, 70; AE 1888, 141

Deo Artahe L(uci) P(ompei) Pauliniani [nep(os) 3]

ILTG 37

Artahe deo Rufo IIFIS v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito)

ILTG 38

[...] Artahe [...]

From the same region - the village of Lourde

Lourde, Haute-Garonne

Lourde is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...

 - comes another inscription bearing the name:

CIL 13, 71

Artehe deo Bonnexi Amandi v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito)

It is also recorded in an inscription from Malvezie

Malvezie

Malvezie is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...

:

CIL 13, 73 (4, p 2)

Ar[t]a[he deo] L(ucius) Antist(ius) Syntr[o]p(h)us v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito)

Etymology

The name appears to be of ancient Aquitanian

Aquitanian language

The Aquitanian language was spoken in ancient Aquitaine before the Roman conquest and, probably much later, until the Early Middle Ages....

origin and may be cognate with modern Basque arte "oak". The place name Ardet may be derived from the theonym, or vice-versa.