Iouga is a suggested reconstruction of the name of a Romano-British goddess known from a single fragmentary inscription on an altar-stone at York. The name appears as Ioug or Iou on the damaged stone, which reads:

NVMINIB AVG ET DEAE IOV

SIVS AEDEM PRO PARTE D^[1][2]

To the numina of the Emperor(s) and to the goddess Iou, sius (built/restored) a (half?) part of a temple.

Reading the fragmentary name as Ioug, Roger Wright proposed the reconstructed form Iouga, which he linked with the Proto-Celtic *jugā meaning 'yoke'. However, Theresia Pantzer, reviewing the stone, suggests that what Wright had perceived as traces of a letter g was merely "damage to the stone rather than part of a letter".^[2] The goddess is otherwise unknown.^[3]

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