Ancasta

No mythic or origin narrative is preserved in the available material. Ancasta is known only from a Latin votive inscription reading DEAE ANCASTAE GEMINVS MANI VSLM, showing she was addressed as a goddess (dea) in Roman dedications at Clausentum. Beyond this dedicatory context, sources offer no account of her birth, ancestry, or mythic origin.

No physical descriptions, iconography, or statues of Ancasta are attested in the provided sources. There is no documentary evidence of specific attributes, dress, or symbolic markers associated with her.

The sources do not record explicit powers or deeds for Ancasta. The votive context indicates she functioned as an object of vows and reciprocal devotion typical of Roman-era local cults. One scholarly suggestion — presented as tentative — links her name to Proto-Celtic *kasto- 'swift' and there is a possible association with the nearby River Itchen, which together provide speculative contextual evidence that she may have been a local place- or river-associated goddess, but these points are uncertain and not attested as explicit powers or actions in the sources.