Suovetaurilia
The Suovetaurilia ( Latin , plural, also Solitaurilia ) were a specific form of animal sacrifice in the Roman religion .
Three sacrificial animals, a boar ( sus , "pig"), a ram ( ovis , "sheep") and a bull ( taurus ) were led around people or a place who were to be atoned for or saved from harm. So it was an apotropaic act . The animals were then killed and, as is generally the case with ancient animal sacrifices, eaten. A distinction was made between suovetaurilia lactentia and suovetaurilia minora , in which the young animals were sacrificed (piglet, lamb and calf) and suovetaurilia maiora , in which the adult animals were sacrificed.
With Cato the Elder there is a description of the course of the ceremony.
The Suovetaurilia took place during the lustrum , during the cleaning ( lustratio ) of an army, the grove of the Arval brothers or a field, as well as during the spolia opima and the triumphal procession .
literature
- Gerhard Radke: Suovetaurilia. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 5, Stuttgart 1975, column 433.
- Udo Werner Scholz : Suovetaurilia and Solitaurilia. In: Philologus 117 (1973), pp. 3-28
- Anne Viola Siebert : Suovetaurilia. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 11, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01481-9 , column 1111 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cato the Elder De agri cultura 141