Was There Room for Healing in the Healing Sanctuaries?

Turfa, Jean MacIntosh

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“…The giving of votives can be understood within the contractual relationship between humans and gods in Roman religion. Something was requested through supplication to the gods and a vow ( votum ) was sworn by the suppliant to reciprocate with an offering upon the granting of that request; that vow or promise had to be fulfilled (Derks, 1998; Turfa, 2006: 91–2; Rüpke, 2007: 163). The promised thank offering was made at the successful end of the petitioning process, and once that offering had been given, the contract was fulfilled and completed.…”

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“…Presumably, a terracotta swaddled infant votive or uterus would not have been the costliest gift, but, as Fay Glinister has suggested, the production of terracotta ex-votos was not entirely without trouble or expense (Glinister, 2006: 27–8). Modern consumers may view terracotta as inexpensive, but in classical antiquity the costs of fuel and a lengthy process of preparation enhanced their value, and many of the terracotta votives are beautifully done (Turfa, 2006: 72). Such items may not have been accessible to the poor, although in the modern scholarly literature they seem to be referred to as gifts of the common folk or the poor (contra Scopacasa, 2015: 7; Rous, 2009: 67).…”

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“…Comella, 1978;Fiorini, 2005;Mercuri and Fiorini, 2014; Hughes, 2017: 70-3. 19 I cannot judge whether the votive offerings were being placed 'in the ruins of the cult rooms' (my emphasis), asTurfa, 2006: 67, suggests. MATER MATUTA, 'FERTILITY CULTS'…”

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“… 14 Glinister, 2006: 21; Turfa, 2006: 78; Fabbri, 2010: 30–1; Bendlin, 2013: 466; contra De Cazanove, 2015: 56–8.…”

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“… 19 I cannot judge whether the votive offerings were being placed ‘in the ruins of the cult rooms’ (my emphasis), as Turfa, 2006: 67, suggests.…”

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Mater Matuta, ‘Fertility Cults’ and the Integration of Women in Religious Life in Italy in the Fourth to First Centuries Bc

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2019

Pap. Br. Sch. Rome

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This study explores social and gendered aspects of female fertility in popular religious practices in Italy in the last four centuries BC, and it investigates the role of supplication and votive dedications in promoting maternal health and family continuity. It tackles modern assumptions which have strongly aligned the religious activities of women in Republican Italy with their generative interests and specific ‘fertility cults’ or ‘women's goddesses’. Divinities associated with fertility are explored here, with particular emphasis on Mater Matuta who is often defined in modern research as a ‘mother goddess’. The study shows that cults purely concerned with fertility are unlikely to have existed. Fertility was only one of several fundamental personal concerns brought by women and men to the generalist and polyvalent deities of Republican Italy. Items associated with fertility, such as terracotta wombs, male and female genitals, and swaddled infants, always occur together with other anatomical ex-votos across a wide range of sites and were dedicated to many deities. Considering the archaeological and textual evidence, Mater Matuta can be shown to have occupied a more flexible and encompassing space in the pantheon, and her involvement in marriage, motherhood and childbearing was part of a wider repertoire of responsibilities. The study also focuses attention on a distinctive, but largely overlooked, votive assemblage from Capua which includes numerous tufa statues of women and babies. The paper proposes that they should be understood as votive objects offered to an unknown deity by Capuan women as thanks for support in the generative enterprise, personally and more broadly in the context of the city's religious and civic identity.

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“… 14 Glinister, 2006: 21; Turfa, 2006: 78; Fabbri, 2010: 30–1; Bendlin, 2013: 466; contra De Cazanove, 2015: 56–8.…”

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Was There Room for Healing in the Healing Sanctuaries?

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