Submitted for award of PhD September 2006. - King's College London

tr(ebieis). virriieis. ken 2ssurineis. ekas 3iüvilas. tris. eh4peilatasset. ve5sulliais.
fertalis 6staflatas set 7mi(nieis). blüssii(eis). mi(nieis). m(eddikkiai). t(üvtikai)
8nessimas.
staiet 9veruis. lüvkei
These three iüvilas of Trebius Virrius Censorinus were set up in the vesulliae
fertaliae (month). They were erected when Minius Blossius son of Minius
was meddix tuticus. They are standing by the gates, in the grove.
ST Cp 25, Ve 94, Co 108, Bu 25 a, b, Pi 23, FdB 16, He 12. On one side three
loaves, on the other side a boar.
aminieis. kaisillieis. minateis. ner(eis). 2ekas. iuvilas. iuvei. flagui 3stahint
b2minnieis kaisillieis. minateis: ner(eis). 'ekas: iüvilas. iüvei. flagiui. stahint.
80f Minius Caesillius Nerius son of Minatus453 These ii vilas stand in
dedication to Iupiter Flagius.
b0f Minius Caesillius Nerius son of Minatus. These iüvilas stand for Iupiter
Flagius. 454
Private celebrations of the dead during holidays are made public by the appearance
of an official or are held in the context of public event. Coarelli noted similarities
between the sanctuaries of Libitina outside the Esquiline gates on the Campus
Esquilinus, and that of fondo Patturelli. The sanctuary of Libitina stood in the lucus
Libitinae, at the centre of a necropolis. 455 Cicero mentions a senatus consultum
which assigned a piece of public land in the campus Esquilinus for the tomb of Ser.
453
It is not certain whether the term ner means princeps, suggested by Heurgon (1942a) 18 or a
cognomen, as Franchi de Bellis (1981) interprets.
454 The dative case of iüvei. flagiul was usually translated as for `lupiter Flagius'. Franchi de Bellis,
however, argues that we should understand as `next to', a reference to the location of the iovila.
455
Coarelli (1995) 383-7.
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