Rehtia, the Venetic Goddess of Healing.

Whatmough, Joshua

doi:10.2307/2843734

The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Bri

1922

DOI: 10.2307/2843734

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Rehtia, the Venetic Goddess of Healing.

Joshua Whatmough¹

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“…44 Sometimes these objects are described as 'wedges' (Italian chiodi) rather than styluses. Some scholarship, particularly in the early twentieth century, described these as nails, or even hairpins (spilloni):Conway 1916;Whatmough 1922;Ghirardini 1888a; Prosdocimi 1990: 260. 45 To give a sample for comparison, the British Museum Greek and Roman Antiquities department has 105 unbroken styluses for which the length is listed in their catalogue.…”

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Education and Literacy in Ancient Italy: Evidence from the Dedications to the Goddess Reitia

McDonald

2019

J. Rom. Stud.

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This article discusses the votive dedications to the goddess Reitia at the sanctuary of Este-Baratella (Veneto) as evidence for the acquisition of literacy in Italy c. 350–150 b.c. These dedications, which take the form of bronze writing-tablets and styluses, are inscribed with Venetic dedicatory formulae, abecedaria and other writing exercises. This article shows how these texts function as writing exercises — some of the earliest evidence of elementary education methods in Italy. Many of the votives were dedicated by women, and this article argues that women were active participants in literacy and education in this period. It also sets the dedications in their Italian and Mediterranean context by comparing them to votive and funerary deposits of abecedaria from across Italy and the ancient world.

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“… 44 Sometimes these objects are described as ‘wedges’ (Italian chiodi ) rather than styluses. Some scholarship, particularly in the early twentieth century, described these as nails, or even hairpins ( spilloni ): Conway 1916; Whatmough 1922; Ghirardini 1888a; Prosdocimi 1990: 260.…”

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Education and Literacy in Ancient Italy: Evidence from the Dedications to the Goddess Reitia

McDonald

2019

J. Rom. Stud.

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Education and Literacy in Ancient Italy: Evidence from the Dedications to the Goddess Reitia

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