I tempi del rito
Subtitle: il santuario di Monte Li Santi-Le Rote a Narce
By: Maria Anna De Lucia Brolli, Jacopo Tabolli
Contributors: Tabolli, Jacopo, author; Museo archeologico dell'Agro falisco (Civita Castellana, Italy); Museo civico archeologico-virtuale di Narce
Publisher: Officina edizioni
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Roma
Language: ita
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9788860491312
Subjects: Exhibitions; Antiquities; Etruscans; Excavations (Archaeology); Sanctuary of Monte Li Santi-Le Rote (Civita Castellana, Italy)
Description: This book gives an account of the sanctuary of Monte Li Santi-Le Rote at Narce, the southern town of the Ager Faliscus. Excavation began at this site in 1985, and annual excavations were carried out by the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell'Etruria until 2004. An excavation also took place in October 2014 in order to investigate the area where new pillars of the renovated roof will be placed. The results of both excavations are cataloged in this book. The sanctuary shows a continuity of cults from the 6th to the 2nd century BC, as well as cult activity after the Roman conquest. In early periods, cult activity focuses on Demeter and Persephone; in the second half of the 3rd century BC, a new cult is attested in the sanctuary by a space sacred to Minerva Maia and Fortuna. The abandonment of the existing cults in favor of the latter deity appears as a peculiar change of ownership of the sanctuary. At the same time, the core of the cult, as witnessed by the medical votives, is still focused on women as the center for the protection of the family and of all stages of their growth.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museo archeologico dell'Agro Falisco, Civita Castellana, Italy, and at the Museo civico archeologico-virtuale di Narce, Mazzano Romano, Italy, March 15-June 30, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-95).

Text in Italian; abstract in English.