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  1. 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 ...

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › ReitiaReitia - Wikipedia

    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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  4. 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.

  5. 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 ...

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › RhaeticRhaetic - Wikipedia

    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 ...

    • Early 1st millennium BC to 1st century BC
    • Tyrsenian, Rhaetic
    • Eastern Alps, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Slovenia
    • Ancient Rhaetia
  7. A tradition developed already in ancient times to try to explain why the Eneti/Veneti name was found at the north end of the Adriatic Sea. The Eneti or in Latin Veneti, who had been allies to the Trojans, the story goes, landed on the northern Adriatic coast, and settled there, displacing the natives , the Euganei .

  8. Other articles where Reitia is discussed: Veneti: …centre of their important divinity Reitia, possibly a goddess of childbirth. The horses bred in Venetia were famous in the Greek world, and there was other commerce both with Greek lands and with the Alps and northern Europe, including some control of the amber route from the Baltic.

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