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    STUDIA HISTORIA - Issue no. 1 / 2014  
         
  Article:   I BANCHETTI RELIGIOSI NELLA DACIA ROMANA. TESTIMONIANZE EPIGRAFICHE.

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  Abstract:  The aim of our study is to analyze the inscriptions from Dacia containing references to ritual banquets, public or private. The information is scarce, but not negligible. Epigraphically attested are the cult buildings (temples, aedes) where feasting rituals were taking place (an apparatorium – in a mithraeum of Apulum, an exedra – in the same place, and two culinae in the temple of the Palmyrene gods and in the aedes fabrum of Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa). Concerning public ceremonies, only an epulum Iovis is epigraphically mentioned for May 23rd. The ingredients for a banquet are listed in a wax tablet from Alburnus Maior, where the members of an association (collegium) had prepared the menu with bread, lamb and pork, wine and vegetables.

Key words: banquet, ritual, epigraphy, menu, wax tablet.

 
         
     
         
         
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