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Ambarvalia

Relief depicting the three animals sacrificed at the Ambarvalia as part of a suovetaurilia (a sow, a sheep, and a bull)

Ambarvalia was a Roman agricultural fertility rite, involving animal sacrifices and held on 29 May[1] in honor of Ceres, Bacchus[2] and Dea Dia.[3] However, the exact timing could vary since Ambarvalia was a "fariae conceptivae" - a festival not bound to a fixed date.[4]

  1. ^ "Roman Festivals & Holidays". Archived from the original on 2020-02-16. Retrieved 2015-05-08.
  2. ^ Ephraim Chambers (1728). Cyclopedia (Chambers) - Volume 1. pp. 74, 146.
  3. ^ Phillips III, C. Robert (1996), "Ambarvalia", in Hornblower, Simon; Spawforth, Anthony (eds.), Oxford Classical Dictionary (3rd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-521693-8
  4. ^ Stek, Tesse D. (2009), "Roman Ritual in the Italian Countryside? The Compitalia and the Shrines of the Lares Compitales", Cult Places and Cultural Change in Republican Italy, A Contextual Approach to Religious Aspects of Rural Society after the Roman Conquest, Amsterdam University Press, p. 200, ISBN 978-90-8964-177-9, retrieved 2024-03-03
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