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Posted: 01 Jun 2013


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Altar to Sulis Minerva

Altar to Sulis Minerva
DEAE SULI
L(UCIUS) MARCIUS MEMNOR
HARUSP(EX)
D(ONO) D(EDIT)

For the goddess Sulis, Lucius Marcius Memnor, haruspex, gave this gift.

A haruspex was a priest trained to practice a form of divination called haruspicy which is the inspection of the entrails of sacrificed animals, especially the livers of sacrificed sheep and poultry, to predict the future.
The Roman Baths, Bath, England.

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