Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

calendar rite of instrument purification

calendar_rite_of_instrument_purification

A motif of the Sacred Time and Ritual Cycle family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


roman

  • Fasti LIBER II. / NOTES: / LIBER III. / NOTES:; lines 6684-6718 confidence: high

    The last day of the Quinquatrus, the Kalends of April, was the Tubilustrum; Varro and Festus say trumpets were purified in the Atrium Sutorium; another Tubilustrum on X Kal. Jun. was to Vulcan.

    The Tubilustrum is described as a calendar rite in which trumpets were purified at a named place.

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