Language and Ritual in Sabellic Italy: The Ritual Complex of the Third and the Fourth Tabulae Iguvinae

by Michael L. Weiss and Michael Weiss

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004177892
• ISBN13: 9789004177895
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 532 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.6" x 9.7"