eastward Illyrians. They knew the divine pair of water-deities Vidassus (as Roman Sylvanus) and Thana (as Roman Diana), whose rocky reliefs persist today at some springs in their area. They worshiped the holy horse as their tribal totem, and also the holy snakes as the symbol of their ancestors. Their early tombs were usually in caves, and then in Roman times often in wooden sarcophagi and also incinerated in ceramic urns. Japodian burial urns were art a unique form influenced to a degree by the Situla art of northern Illyria and Italy and by Greek art. Archaeogenetics A archaeogenetic studies published in Nature (2022) examined 8 samples from three Early Iron Age Iapydes sites. All five tested men belonged to the Y-DNA haplogroup patrilineal line J2b2a1-L283 (> J-Y86930). The mtDNA haplogroups fell under H, H1, 2x H3b, H5, T2a1a, T2b and U5a1g. See also Lika References Sources Mitja Gustin et al.: Keltoi in Yugoslavia (Die Kelten und ihre Zeitgenossen auf dem Gebiet Jugoslawiens). Narodni muzej, Ljubljana 1984. Radoslav Katicic: Zur Frage der keltischen und pannonischen Namengebiete im römischen Dalmatien. Godisnjak (Annuaire) 3, 55 p., Centar za balkanoloske studije, Sarajevo 1965. Historical Celtic peoples Gauls Illyrian tribes Celtic tribes of Illyria Ancient tribes in Croatia Ancient history of Slovenia Ancient tribes in Bosnia and Herzegovina Foederati Illyrian Bosnia and Herzegovina