Sigillaria (ancient Rome)
ancient roman culture sigillaria pottery wax figurine given traditional gift saturnalia sigillaria proper noun also name last day saturnalia december place sigillaria sold sigillarius person made sold sigillaria perhaps offshoot pottery manufacture via sigillaria rome street dedicated manufacturing selling gift statuette frequently made likeness divinity hercules minerva apollo sauroctunus victory celebrated mythological character danäe hyacinthus failing purely fantastic type hermaphrodite hunchback sigilla sometimes made clay case worth trifling unless workmanship possessed unusual merit made marble corinthian bronze silver gold however frequently considerable value dialogue macrobiuss saturnalia interlocutor praetextatus say sigillaria substitute sacrificial victim primitive religious ritual interpreted raise question human sacrifice among earliest roman see also argei oscilla speaker evangelus however counter figure nothing toy amuse child take sigillaria mentioned holiday clay figurine meant amuse infant haven’t yet learned walk try make matter religious duty also epicadus report hercules slain geryon led cattle victoriously italy built sublician bridge it’s called could cast river human effigy equal number companion lost mischance journey way could carried along current sea restored sense ancestral home place body dead according epicadus practice fashioning effigy remained part rite fourday fair vendor figurine gift set temporary stall campus martius later portico bath trajan juvenal say vendor stall blocked painting jason argonaut porticus agrippiana