Overview

The Iguvine Tables (Tabulae Iguvinae) are among the most invaluable documents of Italic linguistics and religion. Seven bronze tablets discovered in 1444 in the Umbrian town of Gubbio (ancient Iguvium), they record the rites and sacral laws of a priestly brotherhood, the Fratres Atiedii, with a degree of detail unparalleled elsewhere in ancient Italy. Taking an interdisciplinary approach that combines philological and linguistic, as well as ritual analysis, Michael Weiss not only addresses the many interpretive cruces that have puzzled scholars for a century and a half, but also constructs a coherent theory of the entire ritual performance described on Tables III and IV. In addition, Weiss sheds light on many questions of Roman ritual practice and places the Iguvine Tables in their broader Italic and Indo-European contexts.

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Author:   Michael Weiss
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   1.060kg
ISBN:  

9789004177895

ISBN 10:   9004177892
Pages:   532
Publication Date:   26 October 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS Preface and Acknowledgments ....................................................... ix Abbreviations and Symbols ............................................................. xi Introduction ........................................................................................ 1 Section 1: Anna Karenina and the Tabulae Iguvinae ......... 1 Section 2: Scope and Methods ................................................ 3 Section 3: John B. Wilkins's New Paradigm ........................ 9 Section 4: Overview of the Present Work ............................ 24 Section 5: A Note on Transcription, Transliteration, and Other Matters ......................................................... 25 I. The Preliminary Events (TI III 1 -10) .................................... 29 Section 1: The Dating Formula .............................................. 30 Section 2: The Preliminary Purifi cation ................................ 60 Section 3: The Events Involving the uhtur .......................... 75 II. The Building of the Kletra (TI III 11-20) ............................. 97 Section 1: The Procession to the Field .................................. 99 Section 2: The kletra ................................................................ 106 Section 3: The Events in the Field ......................................... 114 III. The Arrival at the Grove (TI III 20-30) ................................ 135 Section 1: The Arrival at the Grove ....................................... 136 Section 2: The Placing of Fire ................................................. 147 Section 3: The Consecration ................................................... 156 Section 4: The Benefi ciary Phrases ......................................... 182 Section 5: The Specifying Formula ........................................ 200 Section 6: The Divinities .......................................................... 217 IV. The Off erings (TI III 30-IV 6) ................................................ 245 Section 1: The Offering of the sakre ..................................... 247 Section 2: eruku aruvia feitu ................................................. 271 Section 3: The Offering of the Sheep ..................................... 294 Section 4: The Distribution of the tefra ............................... 314 Section 5: The peru(m)/perso(m) ........................................... 322 Section 6: The ereclum ............................................................ 346 viii contents V. The Supplementary Offerings (TI IV 6-27) .......................... 355 Section 1: The supa/sopa Problem ......................................... 358 Section 2: vempersuntres and persuntru ............................ 384 VI. The Concluding Acts (TI IV 27-33) ...................................... 399 Section 1: The erus ................................................................... 400 Section 2: The Second Use of Fire ......................................... 425 Conclusions ........................................................................................ 433 Section 1: Translation of III-IV ............................................. 433 Section 2: Findings ................................................................... 441 References ........................................................................................... 445 Indices .................................................................................................. 479

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Michael Weiss, Ph.D. (1993) in Linguistics, Cornell University, is currently a Professor of Linguistics at Cornell University. He has taught in the Classics departments at Yale and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published articles on various aspects of Indo-European, Greek, and Latin linguistics. He is the author of An Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin (Beech Stave, 2009).

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