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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).
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.
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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. The Veneti…
Feb 25, 2022 · The cult of the Veneti’s Pora Reitia goddess relates also to the practice of writing. Numerous inscribed bronze tablets have been found at the Pora Reitia sanctuaries. These were mostly written in the Veneti alphabet, which shares similarities with Etruscan and other runic languages.
It has also been suggested that the name Raeti may be connected with Reitia, a major goddess who was revered in northeast Italy and is attested in a number of inscriptions on votive tablets of the Veneti people.
Feb 6, 2017 · This paper suggests that the dual functions of Reitia – her association with women and her association with writing – came together to create a highly specific local epigraphic practice, whose linguistic and archaeological traces continue into the Roman period of the city.
This article examines the Venetic dedications to the goddess Reitia at the Este-Baratella sanctuary as evidence for elementary education in Italy in the fourth to second centuries B.C. These texts appear on dedicatory bronze writing implements — speci cally, writing-tablets and styluses — inscribed with imitations of learners’ exercises (or
