Acionna

In 1822, Jean-Baptiste Jollois, one of the founding fathers of archaeology in the region, carried out excavations on the so-called "fontaine de l'Étuvée", an ancient water-source which he artificially drained to rediscover if it could still supply the town's public water fountains.

In a former cesspit, he found a roughly square (0.6m by 0.55m) stone tablet with a well-preserved votive inscription, datable by its style to the 2nd century.

It reads: Acionna is not attested in any other sources, but the ending -onna indisputably indicates a Latinized Gallic name.

Her name may be linked to that of the river Essonne - Axiona, Exona, in medieval texts - whose source is in the slopes to the north of the forêt d'Orléans (this river's upper course is today called the Œuf and only takes up the name Essonne at its junction with the Rimarde).

Acionna probably had her sanctuary at the Fontaine de l'Etuvée in the commune of Orléans and remains of a Gallo-Roman temple and a section of an aqueduct were excavated in 2007.