Ammaí Kerriíaí

The Mother of the Agnone list, under the same Cereal cult-title as the Daughter who stands beside her. Reference treatments gloss her as Demeter, and the pairing of a Mother and a Daughter in a grain sanctuary is obviously suggestive; but the tablet is a list of recipients, not a myth, and it does not say that the two are kin or that either is Ceres herself. What it does establish is that the Oscan sanctuary honoured a goddess addressed simply as Mother.

Domains

• motherhood
• agriculture

Epithets

• KerriíaíAgnone Tablet — the Cereal cult-title. (epigraphic)

Relations

• ally: Kerres, the grain goddessCo-honoured with Kerres in the Garden of Ceres and carrying her cult-title.Agnone Tablet — a recipient in the Garden of Ceres, under the Cereal cult-title. (epigraphic)
• ally: Futreí KerriíaíListed alongside Futreí, the Daughter, both bearing the Cereal title. The tablet sets them side by side without stating a kin relation, so none is authored.Agnone Tablet — Ammaí Kerriíaí and Futreí Kerriíaí, the Mother and the Daughter. (epigraphic)

Sources

• Ammaí Kerriíaí, 'the Cereal Mother', is a goddess named among the recipients of the Garden of Ceres on the Agnone Tablet; the reference literature compares her with Demeter.: Agnone Tablet (Tabula Osca), British Museum G_1873-0820-149. (epigraphic); Reference gloss of Amai Kerriiai as the mother-goddess, compared with Demeter. (secondary)