Votive Stones of Pesaro

The Ancient Votive Stones of Pesaro are 13 sandstone rocks that were unearthed in 1737 in a Pesaro, Italy farm field owned by Patrician Annibale degli Abati Olivieri.[1] Oliverio dug up the stones at the site of his newly discovered Lucus Pisaurensis Sacred Grove on his property at Il Pignocco[2] in Pesaro.[3]

These votive stones were incised in a pre-Estrucan script, each bearing the name of an early Roman god.[4] APOLLO, the Sun-God; MAT[ER]-MATVTA, an ancient semone divinity of luci; FIDE, an ancient goddess of High Divinity status, and IVNONII (Juno), a goddess of multiple origin myths,[5] are a few of the names inscribed on the stones. They are estimated to date from c. 400 BC,[6][7] a time when Pesaro was called by its Latin name of Pisaurum.[8]

The stones are on display at the Museo Oliveriano, a Library and Museum in Pesaro housing the collections of Annibale degli Abati Olivieri, Giovanni Battista Passeri, and Giulio Perticari.[9][10]

Etymology

Pesaro (Italian), fr. Pisaurum (latin), pis (pi π, plural) + (aurum, reflecting gold).[11]

See also

Further reading

Lucus Pisaurensis: The Sacred Grove of Il Pignocco in Pesaro, Italy, discovered by Annibale degli Abati Olivieri, http://www.ilpignocco.it/en/about-us/lucus-pisaurensis/

References
  1. In festo Ascensionis Christi oratio habita in basilica Lateranensi ad sanctissimum d.n. Benedictum 13. pontificem maximum ab Annibale de Abatibus Oliverio Pisaurensi J.V.D.(1728)
  2. Votive Stones of Pesaro, http://www.ilpignocco.it/en/
  3. Lucus Pisaurensis: Sacred Grove of Pesaro Discovered by Annibale degli Abati Olivieri, http://www.ilpignocco.it/en/about-us/lucus-pisaurensis/
  4. Roman Votive Stones, http://www.italythisway.com/places/articles/pesaro-history.php
  5. Online Etymology Dictionary, see references to transmigration http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Juno
  6. Estrucan Scripts Through the Ages, http://www.ancientscripts.com/etruscan.html
  7. Roman Votive Stones, http://www.italythisway.com/places/articles/pesaro-history.php
  8. Etymology Pisaurum, http://www.italythisway.com/places/articles/pesaro-history.php
  9. Spiegazione di alcuni monumenti degli antichi Pelasgi : trasportata dal Francese con alcune osservazioni sovra i medesimi. (1735)
  10. Biblioteca Oliveriana, http://www.italythisway.com/places/articles/pesaro-history.php
  11. History of Pesaro, Etymology of Pisaurum, http://www.italythisway.com/places/articles/pesaro-history.php
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