L'iscrizione di Trivia ed il culto del santuario alla foce del Garigliano
In: Archeologia Classica: 56, 2006
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The author's direct examination of the so-called "Trivia" inscription, found in the sanctuary of Marica at the mouth of the river Garigliano, provides new elements for its reading and interpretation. The author proposes that the long Latin inscription scratched inside the bowl should be considered a votive dedication expressed in a complex and elliptical form, in which the object and the subject of the dedication seem to be confused and the term trivoial, "belonging to Trivia", refers to both. The names of the offerer and his companions (sokioi) were omitted because of the chthonic nature of Marica's cult. The prohibition to appropriate (nei pari med) seems to concern the offerer as far as the bowl and can be intended as a protection granted to the strangers by the goddess and her companion (deom duo, "two of the gods"). The Italic (pre-Samnite) name, scratched on the external wall of the bowl, probably belongs to an inhabitant of Minturnae who gave hospitality to the Latin author of the dedication, in the context of long-distance contacts between Auruncans and Latins.