Language and Ritual in Sabellic Italy

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).

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