MATER MAGNA A ROMA: TRE VARIAZIONI SUL TEMA

Abstract

The paper is part of the project which aims to update the section of CIL, VI concerning Rome sacred inscriptions.
Three cases regarding the Mother of the Gods are debated. In the first case, we try to demonstrate
how the original belonging place of CIL, VI 505 and 506 is not a private property of the clarissimus L. Cornelius
Scipio Orfitus but a public space where the Mother of the Gods was worshiped. In the second case, we
bring to attention the most ancient Mother of the Gods inscription in Rome, AE 1994, 215, hypothesizing
that the woman mentioned there may belong to a relevant but unrecognized gens Varia of the end of the
III -beginning of the II century BC. In the last case, a different reading of CIL, VI 32466 + 19875 is attempted,
according to which the archigalli would have had a regime of community life during their mandate.