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The Raeti ( / ˈriːtaɪ / REE-ty; spelling variants: Rhaeti, Rheti or Rhaetii) were a confederation of Alpine tribes, whose language and culture was related to those of the Etruscans. Before the Roman conquest, they inhabited present-day Tyrol in Austria, eastern Switzerland and the Alpine regions of northeastern Italy.
Reitia ( Venetic: 𐌓𐌄:𐌉:𐌕𐌉:𐌀) is a goddess, one of the best known deities of the Adriatic Veneti of northeastern Italy . While her place in the Venetic pantheon cannot be known for certain, the importance of her cult to Venetic society is well attested in archaeological finds. A large body of votive offerings on pottery and ...
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Feb 24, 2023 · Veronica Franco and Caterina Corner are probably the most known Venetian women.Veronica Franco was a literary and artistically very gifted courtesan, with a high education, known for her liaisons with the leading notables of her time including the King of France; Caterina Cornaro was the last Queen of Cyprus who was forced to abdicate in favor of the Serenissima.
Feb 6, 2017 · The paper will be based on brand new research I have been doing on the dedications to the goddess Reitia at Este. Here is the abstract: The epigraphic culture of the Veneto region is full of contrasts, particularly between its two largest cities: Este and Padua. At Padua, dedications to the gods were made within the city, many dedications are ...
Cult. Reitia is seen as a Goddess of writing, procreation, health, commerce, animals and weaving (Cipriano, 2016). One of Reitia’s cultic sites was Este, with rituals taking place there from the 7th century BCE till the 2nd century CE (Cipriano, 2016). Her sanctuary at Este may have been a scribal school due to many writing implements and ...
Rhaetic or Raetic (/ ˈ r iː t ɪ k /), also known as Rhaetian, was a Tyrsenian language spoken in the ancient region of Rhaetia in the eastern Alps in pre-Roman and Roman times. It is documented by around 280 texts dated from the 5th up until the 1st century BC, which were found through northern Italy, southern Germany, eastern Switzerland, Slovenia and western Austria, in two variants of ...
This article discusses the votive dedications to the goddess Reitia at the sanctuary of Este-Baratella (Veneto) as evidence for the acquisition of literacy in Italy c. 350–150 b.c. These dedications, which take the form of bronze writing-tablets and styluses, are inscribed with Venetic dedicatory formulae, abecedaria and other writing exercises.
