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MyTH, History AND CULTURE
IN REPUBLICAN ROME
Studies in honour of TP Wiseman
edited by
David Braund & Christopher Gill
udu
EXETER
PRESS2
Remoria
FILIPPO COARELLI
Why Remus? To ask the question is pethaps already to begin to answer it.
However, in the first monograph dedicated to the younger of the twins Peter
Wiseman (1995) has proceeded far beyond a beginning: now that we have
his work it will no longer be possible to read again with the same eyes as
before the traditional story of the foundation of Rome. One point in
particular, and of the first importance, seems to me to have been established
(thanks to Wiseman’s ic critical re-examination of the sources),
namely the relatively late chronology of the introduction of Remus. Wiseman
has also given us the political explanation of such ‘invention’, connecting it
with the definitive victory of the plebs between the end of the fourth century
and early years of the third century BC.
No doubt, there will be cause in future to return to one or another part of
this analysis, but here I would like to restrict myself to a particular issue
which, given its essentially topographical character, is perhaps closer both to
my interests and, more important, to my sphere of competence. Starting from
the hypothesis of an identification which is different from that of Wiseman,
it seems to me, indeed, that one might develop further the argument which,
in my view, constitutes one of the most notable parts of Wiseman's book,
namely his discussion of the mirror depicting the wolf and the twins,
entailing an old and neglected hypothesis of Schwegler, recently taken up
again by TJ. Cornell.!
1. Schwegler 1853, 434-5; Comell 1975. On the mirror, Adam and Briquel 1982: but I do not see
why this must be a product of Praenestine craftmanship, and not Roman, given also its imagery.
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Figure 2.2 Location of the sanctuary at Magliana (from Scheid 1990)
Wiseman’s identification of Remoria with the Sacred Mount rests on an
argument which is ingenious and entirely in line with the political explan-
ation which lies at the very heart of the whole book.? For if Remus represents
the plebs, it is logical to connect him with places with which the plebs is
closely linked, from the archaic secessions onwards. Indeed, one of the sites
where Remoria comes to be located is in fact the Aventine.’ Therefore it
seems immediately plausible to identify Remoria with the Sacred Mount.
However, for all that, and although plausible in principle, such a solution
faces an obstacle, to my mind decisive, in the information furnished by
ancient authors on the localization of the place: that is, its distance of five
miles from Rome! and its proximity to the Tibet’ The Sacred Mount has
neither of these characteristics. Attempts to resolve the impasse prove forced
2. Wiseman 19953, 114-17; comera, Caran
3. Fest. 344L. (Paul. 345 L.); Plut. Rom 9.4.
4. OGR 23.1. According to DH. 1.85.6, at 30 stades: as Wiseman shows, it is a much-repeated
error, For Strabo 5.3.2, the place @fjoTot is at 30 stades (if it corresponds with the sanctuary of
Magliana, as | believe, it is in reality a matter of five miles). D-H. 8.36.3 locates at 30 stades a
place thar for Liv. 2.39.5 is at five miles.
5. DH. 1.86.6; Ined, Vat., FGrH 839 G 1,5.
1997a, 445, n. 8.44 Filippo Coarelli
TEMPLE
OF
DEA DIA.
circus ?
Figure 2.3 Location of the sanctuary of Dea Dia at Magliana (from Scheid 1990)
and do not convince, partly because it is not the case, pace Wiseman (1995a,
116), that we have no other available solutions.
Indeed the distance of five miles does not seem to be a casual detail: as we
know, it takes us to a boundary which coincides precisely with the border of
the archaic Roman territory—the ager Romanus antiquus*—and which thus
seems significant on the level of Roman ‘spatial imagination’. Therefore we
can fix, as a hypothesis, the position of Remoria at the intersection of an
important route and the border of the archaic ager near the Tiber.
Such a location can be found only in a few places: to the north of Rome,
along the via Flaminia or via Salaria; or to the south along the via Ostiensis
or the via Campana (Fig. 2.1). However the fifth milestone of the Salaria is
definitely out of the question because it lies outside the territory of archaic
Rome, and in any case coincides with the site of Fidenae. The same may be
said of the via Flaminia: its fifth milestone corresponds with Tor di Quinto,
in an area a little to the south of the Cremera, which forms part of the
territory of Veii. The south is more encouraging: while at the fifth milestone
6. Alfoldi 1965, 296-304; Alfiildi 1962; Scheid 19873.Remoria 45
of the via Ostiensis there is nothing to suggest an ancient settlement, the
situation on the via Campana is different. Here, at the fifth milestone, is
located the famous grove of the goddess Dia (lucus deae Diae), presided over
by the Arval Brethren? and, a little further, one of the two temples of Fors
Fortuna’ (Fig. 2.2).
The sanctuary of dea Dia is situated on the far slopes of a hill very close
to the via Campana and to the Tiber (Fig. 2.3): a place in any case ideal for
a protohistoric settlement. All the circumstances needed for Remoria are
found together here; the distance from Rome, proximity to the Tiber and the
presence of a hill suitable for habitation. Moreover, the modern name of the
hill, ‘Colle delle Piche’, may reproduce an ancient name: a ‘Hill of Magpies’
surely suggests a connection with birds of augury. Something similar may be
found not far away from here, on the Janiculum, where we have evidence of
a sanctuary of dina Comisca, whose link with the practice of augury seems
secure.”
A neglected lemma of Festus may confirm the possible augural function of
the ‘Colle delle Piche’!®: ‘Obscum has two distinct and contrary meanings . . .
but by the same name is also called a place in the ager of Veii, which the
Roman augurs are said to have been in the habit of using’ (Obscum duas
diversas et contrarias significationes habet . .. sed eodem etiam nomine appellatur
locus in agro Veienti, quo frui soliti produntur augures Romani). This part of the
ager of Veii must of necessity be located inside the territory of Rome, if the
augurs could go there in performance of their formal duties; the isolated
nature of Festus’ notice tends to suggest a very early period. Consequently, it
seems beyond doubt that we have here that specific area in the ager of Veii
embraced within the ager Romanus antiquus, in which was also situated the
sanctuary of Magliana, near which the Obscum mentioned by Festus ought to
be located: the ‘Colle delle Piche’ seems to be a very good candidate to be
the latter.
Bur what could be the duties of the augurs which were carried out at this
site? The only reasonable possibility, given the topographic situation, seems
to be taking the auspices (auspicatio) of the ager, which was in fact one of the
principal tasks of the college of augurs.'! That is to say, the place in question
was located at the boundary of archaic Roman territory and, as such,
constituted, in ritual terms, a crucial point of such a boundary. It seems hard
to doubr the identification of this site with the sanctuary of Magliana.
7. Scheid 1990.
8. Champeaux 1982, 199-247.
9, The magpie appears in the text of the Iguvine Tables as an augural bird (Prosdocimi 1978, 644)
On the Diuae Comiscae, Coarelli 1996, 23-5.
10, Fest. 204 L.
11, Mommsen 1887, 284fi; Magdelain 1968; Catalano 1978, 491-506.46 Filippo Coarelli
Further, the ceremony of the Ambarualia conducted by the pontifices,
according to Strabo,!? would have taken place in a location on the boundary
of the more ancient territory of Rome, termed ¢fjotot. So, in this case too it
is not a question of just any point on the boundary, but of a point particularly
marked by the fact that it should formally represent all the other key points
located along the boundary of the ager. This was the point at which took
place the more significant part of the ceremonies connected with that
boundary, and thus, as well as the Ambarualia, probably also the auspicatio of
the ager. Again, we are taken back to the sanctuary of Dea Dia. Everything,
therefore, seems to confirm the old hypothesis, today generally rejected,
which holds that the locality termed fjotot is to be identified with the
sanctuary of Magliana.
Let us pause over Strabo's term: it is evidently a transliteration into Greek
of a Latin toponym. In cases such as this the difficulties of accurate textual
transmission spiral into infinity: accordingly it is probable that Strabo’s text
is corrupt at this juncture, which might explain our difficulty in finding the
corresponding term in Latin."
Now, if our hypothesis is valid, we have the opportunity of finding that
term in the word obscum in Festus, perhaps by reconstituting it in a plural
form (by analogy with many comparable toponyms): obsci. We have here a
toponym which, by a completely independent route, we have taken to
designate the sanctuary of Magliana, or perhaps rather the ‘Colle delle Piche’
which rises above it. A transliteration into Greek would give something like
6PoKot whose conversion to dfjotot does not raise significant difficul 5
If that were so, we would be on the way to identifying the location
mentioned by Festus, and thus the place appointed for the celebration of the
Ambarualia,'® with the sanctuary of Magliana. As for the possible meaning of
obsci, we might consider an etymological link with oscen(-inis) (from occino),
the adjective which characterizes birds in augury which have a ‘singing’
nature, which could include the magpie, pica.!?
The rationale for choosing the sanctuary of Dea Dia as a key location on
the boundary, appointed for the auspicatio agri and the Ambarualia, is perhaps
to be linked with the ordo mibuum,'® that is, with the sequence in which the
tribes presented themselves in voting in the comitia. After the four urban
tribes, from the Suburana to the Palatina, the rural tribes followed, beginning
12. Strabo 5.
13. eg. Scheid 1990, 442
14. Scheid 1990, 98-100.
15. We do not have a full apparatus criticus for the text of Strabo.
16. Contra, Scheid 1990, 442-51.
17. On the oscines, Fest. 214 L.; RE 2, 23324. (Wissowa); Emout and Meillet 1959, 470.
18. Cie. leg. agr. 2.79; Taylor 1960, 69%,Remoria 47
with the Romilia and concluding with the Arnensis. Accordingly the sequence
was anti-clockwise: it began with the tribe located immediately across the
Tiber, the Romilia, which was indeed referred to as the ‘fifth tribe’.'?
We do not know the date at which this tribe was established. The fact that
its name is of a gentilician origin ought normally to mean a date rather late
in the course of the fifth century BC,?° but its situation within the ager
Romanus Antiquus and its precedence among the rural tribes would tend to
suggest, rather, an early date, indeed in the regal period. Its role as a kind of
para-urban tribe, joined to the four Servian tribes, might also have kept it
outside the sphere of the ‘Five on this side and across Tiber’ (Quinqueuiri cis
et uls Tiberim).?! Moreover, it should also be noted that its priority with
regard to the other rural tribes applied also in the census: ‘the tribe called
Romilia, because they figured in the census as from the land which Romulus
had taken from the people of Veii’ (Romilia tribus dicta, quod ex eo agro
censebantur, quem Romulus ceperat ex Veientibus).*? Accordingly it is under-
standable that the auspicatio agri and the ritual lustration of the ager Romanus
(the Ambarualia) began with the Romilia. L.R. Taylor?? rook the view that the
primacy of the Romilia was based on the fact that the sanctuary of the
Arvals, which she considered the starting point of the Ambarualia, was
located in its territory. In my view, the arguments set out above confirm such
an hypothesis.
All this demonstrates that the sanctuary originally enjoyed a role which
went far beyond the simple duties of the Arval Brethren, at least insofar as
those are attested after their Augustan restoration. Accordingly the absence
in the recorded Acts of the Arvals of reference:
we have been considering can no longer serve as a conclusive argument
against the traditional hypothesis, which connects the sanctuary with the
Ambarualia.*4 Indeed, it is probable that such ceremonies were no longer
conducted at the end of the Republic:?> in any case, even if Augustus had
reintroduced them, their performance would have remained outside the
duties of the Arval Brethren, as seems to follow from Strabo, who evidently
speaks of priests, pontifi
to the ceremonies which
19, Var. LL. 5.56: ‘From this, four parts of the city also were used as names of tribes, the Suburan,
the Palatine, the Esquiline, the Colline from the places; the fifth, because it was sub Roma
Cheneath the walls of Rome’) was called Romilian? (ab hoc, partes quospue quattuor arbis tribes
dictae, ab locis Subwrana, Palatina, Esguiina, Collin; quinta quot sub Roma, Romi),
20. Cels-Saint’ Hilaire 1995, 1294.
21. In 186 BC: Liv. 39.14.10; Pompon., Dig. 1.2.2.31-2; Pailler 1985; Sablayrolles 1996, 1621.
22. Fest. (Paul.), 331 L.
23. Taylor 1960, 75.
24. See Scheid 1990, 264, 44261.
25. Sufficient to demonstrate the point is the only available text of the Republican perio: Var. LL
5.84, with the comment of Scheid 1990, 13-17.48 Filippo Coarelli
However, our particular concern is the possible identification of Remoria
with the ‘Colle delle Piche’ and on that issue further help may be found in
the possible link that has been established with the sanctuary of Dea Dia.
In the first place, the connection between Romulus and the tribe Romilia,
though the gens of that name, as suggested by Schulze,’ becomes less
speculative as soon as we are in a position to link the tribe to Remoria in
topographical terms. On the level of myth, the place is identified as a site of
the auspicatio of the second twin, at odds with that of Romulus, which another
tradition (probably later) locates on the Aventine. The present discussion
allows us to understand the ritual basis (which was, certainly, there from the
first) on which the myth of the two sets of concurrent auspices was constructed
at the time when Remus was ‘invented’ (that is, on Wiseman’s view, around
the end of the fourth century BC). In fact, a double auspicatio formed a neces-
sary part of the ritual of foundation, evidently grounded in historical reality,
namely that of the urbs, urban core, and that of the ager, its rural territory.
The first was attributed to Romulus, the second—we may infer from the
possible identification of Remoria—given to Remus. In effect, Remus is linked
with the rural territory, and is accordingly external to the urban core, as is
clearly expressed in the famous episode of his infraction of the first furrow,
sulcus primigenius, which was to cost him his life. So with regard to the line
of the ritual boundary, pomerium, Romulus is inside, Remus outside.?? The
aetiological myth seems to recall a binary ritual, namely the double auspicatio
of the urbs and the ager, both connected with the foundation of the city.
An essential clue, pointing in the same direction, comes from another
passage of Festus, albeit only available to us in Paul’s summary:?* ‘those
sacrifical victims are called Ambaruales which used to be sacrificed for the
fields by the two brethren’ (Ambaruales hostiae appellantur, quae pro aruis a
duobus fratribus sacrificabantur). The celebration of the Ambarualia by only
two fratves has naturally provoked emendations, twelve (duodecim), or radical
improvement by deletion of the text: yet those who prefer to retain the
transmitted text are correct to do so,” not least in view of the fact that
perhaps the fratres Aruales were not in charge of the sacrifice, at least in the
Principate. One might also take the view that originally the number of
Arvals was smaller, as occurred elsewhere with better-known colleges, such
as the augurs or the Fifteen for the performance of sacred rites, Quindecemuiri
sacris faciundis.*° In any case, given the upshot of the present discussion,
6. Schulze 1904, 579-81.
7. Briquel 1980, 294
8. Fest. (Paul.) 5 L.
of play in Scheid 1990, 26-35.
30. The augurs, as we know, developed from three members to sixteen. The origi
Performance of Sacred Rites became thereafter Ten and finally Fifteen.
| Two for the50 Filippo Coarelli
seems to me that, at least at the level of myth, it would be hard not to see in
these two fratres the very founders of Rome, who, again, are to be placed at
the origin of a rite connected with the ager, and this also with the sanctuary
of Magliana.*!
Having reached this stage we are ready to tackle the famous foundation-
myth of the college, which sets out inter alia the reason why the Arvals are
the only Roman priests to be called fratres, or ‘brothers’. The story goes that
originally there were twelve sons of Acca Larentia, one of whom died and
was replaced by Romulus.*? After all that has been discussed above, it seems
to me hard to maintain the radical undervaluation of this myth, which
has been regarded from Mommsen onwards as an invention of the late
annalists.* While there is no doubt that, in the form in which it has come
down to us, the myth is a relatively recent version, it also displays within it a
complex stratigraphy, whose lowest level certainly reaches down to a
distinctly earlier period. Following Wiseman, a later element is the very
presence of Remus, which could not be earlier than about 300 BC. Perhaps
later still is the presence of Romulus alone, with no Remus, beside the twelve
Arvals. If there were originally two Arvals, we may suppose that in a first
phase of the myth there was a double substitution, namely that of Romulus
and Remus for two sons of Acca Larentia.
Now, such a double adoption looks exactly like an operation designed to
bring into an earlier myth, centred on Acca Larentia and her two sons, a
later myth which replaces the latter with two adoptive sons, namely Romulus
and Remus. The date of that amalgamation may now be placed around 300
BC, so that the earlier phase can only be anterior to that date, and probably
belongs to the archaic period. The third version of the myth, which is the
one that has come down to us, in which Romulus replaces one of the twelve
sons of Acca Larentia, is therefore still more recent and constitutes in effect
a reworking of the late annalistic tradition, as we know: The whole process
seems strongly indicative of the mechanisms by which the traditional narratives
of the birth of Rome were formed and developed. They were never one-off,
arbitrary, ‘inventions’ that would be completely incompatible with Roman
patterns of thought. Those permitted invention only through reinvention
and a recycling of elements which already existed, while keeping faith, at
least formally, with the immutable and authority-laden ‘examples of the
ancestors’ (exempla maiorum).
It remains now to identify and examine the ‘original elements’ which, as
we have seen, coincide with a myth centred upon ‘Acca Larentia and her
31. Alfildi 1965, 299 n. 1.
32. Scheid 1990, 2524f,
33. Gell. 7.7.8 ( from Masurius Sabinus): Plin, NH 18.6.
34. Mommsen 1879, 1-20. Cf. Scheid 1990, 186Remoria 51
sons’, for whom Romulus and Remus were later substituted. But who are the
‘sons of Acca Larentia’?
The answer is not particularly problematic and has been given, in a
completely convincing way, by W. Otto and E. Tabeling:* the sons of Acca
Larentia are the Lares, for Acca Larentia means precisely mater Larum,
‘Mother of the Lares’. That Acca equals mater is, in linguistic terms,
established fact. As for Larentia, it is an adjectival form of particular
antiquity, standing for the genitive of Lares.*° To insist that we have here a
mother of the Larentes does not affect the point: these Larentes would in fact
be Lares in their turn (according to Kretschmer, the ‘young Lares’).
Further the presence of the Mater Larum is attested in the Arval acta,
moreover in the context of a particular ceremony of a distinctly chthonic
character.*? To separate this deity, attested in the rite, from the foundation-
story, the aition of the college, centred upon Acca Larentia, seems to me to
be an unjustified excess of hypercriticism, especially with a myth whose
antiquity, in the form anterior to the presence of a lone Romulus, seems to
me to be established. Therefore, Acca Larentia and Mater Lanum are to be
identified not only in linguistic terms, but also in terms of our particular
concern here, namely the mythico-ritual structure. It is worth noting that
the identity of Acca Larentia—besides that of other, probably later, mythical
figures, which seem to derive from her—is closely bound up with the consti-
tution of the ager Romanus, through the inheritance left to Romulus.’
This part of our argument dovetails with the recent study which Wiseman
has made of the mirror bearing a representation of the she-wolf and twins”
(Fig. 2.4). This study leads him to propose the identification of the latter not
with Romulus and Remus but with the Lares Praestites, on the grounds that
four figures are present which seem to represent Hermes (Mercury) and
Tacita at the top and Pan Lycaeus (that is, Faunus) and Quirinus below,
evidently alluding to the myth of the birth of the Lares Praestites.4! Wiseman
adds (1995a, 71): ‘This reconstruction is of course hypothetical . .. If it is
right, then the mirror is no help for Remus and Romulus—or rather, it is only
negative help, as providing a terminus post quem. For if the twins suckled by
the she-wolf could be recognised about 340 BC as the Lares Praestites, then
it is hard to imagine that the Remus and Romulus story yet existed.”
35. Onto 1913; Tabeling 1932, 39 ff. Contra, Momigliano 1969,
36. Kretschmer 1925; Tabeling 1932, 44f
37. Scheid 1990, 587-604 (whose radical scepticism on the link with Acca Larentia Ido not share),
38. Cf, most recently, Coarelli 1997, 139-48.
39. Wiseman 1995a, 65-71; Wiseman 1993; Wiseman 1995b.
40. Cappelli, 1994, 148, n. 84 prefers the identification with Latinus (followed by Carandini 1996
and Carandini 1997a, 179-81).
41. For the view which identifies the founders of Rome with the Lares Pruestites ef. n. 1 above.52 Filippo Coarelli
Wiseman, pursuing his own thesis, is concerned to show that the mirror
has no links with the traditional foundation-legend. My concern, however, is
to explain the rather disturbing fact that the Lares Praestites come to be
represented with the same iconography as would subsequently become
standard for Romulus and Remus.*? In fact, it seems to me beyond doubt
that, if we follow this interpretation, we must infer that from a particular
moment (fixed by Wiseman around 300 BC) the founder-twins took the
place of the Lares Praestites; further, that ultimately we must see in these last
the original founders of the city.
Consequently it is possible to project the data concerning the myth of
Romulus and Remus on to the backcloth constituted by our evidence on the
Lares Praestites. More generally, we have seen already, in the case of the
foundation aition of the Arvals, how such a procedure allows us to explain
the motives which would lead to the substitution of Romulus for one of
the sons of Acca Larentia, and how indeed it may be supposed that the sub-
stitution involved, at a first stage, both the twins. The Lares Praestites became
in fact identified with the sons of Acca Larentia, the Mater Larum.
The fact that Acca Larentia is a ‘she-wolf? has been explained by
Tabeling?® through her role as a companion of the ‘wolf-god’, Faunus (who
actually appears on the mirror).*# On this interpretation too, the iconography
of the she-wolf which suckled the twins is seen to be an illustration of Acca
Larentia (= Mater Larum), who suckled her own sons, that is the Lares
Praestites. The latter's replacement by Romulus and Remus matches, in
iconographical terms, the tradition which introduces the adoption of the
twins by Acca: the need for such an adoption—perfectly symmetrical with
that of Romulus alone in the foundation-myth of the Arvals—thus becomes
entirely apparent. We have a picture of the ‘birth of Rome’ that is perfectly
clear and linear and in which all the original elements fall into place. We
can scrutinize, against this fundamental reference-grid, the whole of the
available mythical and topographical evidence and make these data play
against each other. In what sense can the Lares Praestites be the ‘founders of
Rome’?
The chthonic nature of the Lares,* though contested by the ‘philological’
strand of Roman religious history (and especially by Wissowa 1904 and his
42. So rendering understandable Carandini’s objection, 1996. Cf. Wiseman 1997 and again
randini 1997b,
43. Tabeling 1932, 52f; 64-8,
44. The figure on the left. The beast beneath might be a wolf, not a lion, as Wiseman thinks:
Carandini 1997, 180.
45. Esp. D.H. 1.79.10: Acca Larentia had given birth and her baby, having died, was replaced by
the twins.
46. On which esp. Samter 1901, 105-23; Samrer 1907, 368-92; further, Orto 1913; Tabeling 1932;
Mastrocinque 1993, 137-56.Remoria 53
followers), seems completely beyond doubt, as much on the grounds of the
evidence furnished by ancient tradition itself as on the grounds of historico-
religious comparative study. The old theory of E. Samter, which sees the
Lares as ‘forbears’, has been conclusively confirmed by the discovery of the
boundary-stone of Tor Tignosa, bearing the dedication lave Aenia ('... Lar
Aeneas’).#7 Doubts and disputes notwithstanding, the reading seems today to
have been conclusively established. In consequence, the Lares Praestites, as
Lares publici, may be characterized as the ‘forbears’ of the Roman people. As
such, they become protectors and defenders of the city (as their name
praestites, indicates), taking up positions at the nodal points which define the
urban area and the rural territory. To the principal corner of the Romulean
pomerium, where their appointed cult-place was situated (together with Acca
Larentia),*” corresponds accordingly the principal sanctuary of the ager, that
of the Magliana, thereby confirming, inter alia, that this is the territory of the
eighth century BC.°° The presence of Acca Larentia—Mater Larum—in the
myth and in the rite of the latter corresponds, again, to the role of the duo
fratres (‘two brethren’) who sacrifice ‘for the fields’, pro aruis, in the ceremony
of the Ambarualia. Indeed, in these last, behind the probable original priests,
we can see the Lares Praestites, replaced thereafter by their adoptive brothers,
Romulus and Remus.
The accuracy of this reconstruction is confirmed conclusively by the
evidence of the earliest document of the brotherhood, which opens with the
famous invocation “Help us, Lares!” (enos Lases innate)! The initial,
hierarchically dominant position of the Lares, before even Mars, can only be
explained in terms of their preeminence in the ceremony, directed not only
towards the protection of the boundaries but, above all, to the propitiation
of the fertility of the fields, the arua. That is a duty which, in all agrarian
societies, beside the matter of human reproduction, is invariably the concern
of the deified forbears.*?
47. Weinstock 1960, 114-18.
48. Guarducct 1956-8; Guarducet 1971: against the absurd reading of Kolbe 1970; Schilling 1988,
6-9. The reading is to my mind secure: Coatelli 1973, 321. D. Nonnis has reached the same
conclusion, having recently re-examined the inscription with S. Panciera. Lam grateful to him
for valuable information on this matter.
49. Coarelli 1983, 261-82.
50. Against the unsustainable dating of AlfSldi 1964, 296-304, see Colonna 1986, 93; Coarelli
1988a, 135,
51. Ch, most recently Scheid 1990, 616-23 (644-6 for bibliography)
52. The bibliography is vast: sce for example Propp 1978, 43-60 and the instances of an
ethnological character collected in Lanternari 1976.54 Filippo Coarell
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