Tefer Jovius
Umbrian · deity · Iguvine Umbrian religion; 3rd 1st c. BCE · Recorded classification
Tefer Jovius is the third god of the inner triad of Iguvium, receiving three ewe lambs behind the Veian Gate and a prayer of his own in the liturgy of the Atiedian Brethren. His name is usually referred to the vocabulary of burnt offering, which would make him the recipient defined by the burnt portion; the derivation is a proposal rather than a settled result. Like the other two inner-gate gods he is known only from the Tablets and has no attested kin, consort or narrative.
Variant accounts
- Tefer Jovius stands in structural correspondence to Vofionus Grabovius.In the gate-for-gate reading of the two Iguvine triads, Tefer Jovius answers Vofionus Grabovius at the Veian Gate. This is a correspondence of ritual position and is not encoded as identity; the two remain separate records.'Iguvine Tablets', encyclopedic summary of the two triads and their gate-by-gate correspondence. (secondary)
Domains
- civic lustration
- boundary
Powers
- to receive the ewe lambs offered within the Veian Gate, with a prayer of his own
Epithets
- IouiIguvine Tablets, Tabula Ia 24-34 (Tefrei Ioui, dative). (primary)
Relations
- ally: Trebus JoviusCo-invoked with Trebus Jovius, who opens the inner-gate series at the Trebulan Gate.Iguvine Tablets, Tabula Ia 8-34; VIb 22-42 — recipients of the three inner-gate sacrifices in one liturgical sequence. (primary)
- ally: Fisus SanciusCo-invoked with Fisus Sancius, who takes the second station at the Tesenacan Gate.Iguvine Tablets, Tabula Ia 15-34; VIb 3-42 — the preceding recipient in the same sequence. (primary)
Sources
- Tefer Jovius (Umbrian Tefrei Ioui) receives three ewe lambs behind the Veian Gate of Iguvium, for the Fisian Mount and the state of Iguvium, completing the inner triad with Trebus Jovius and Fisus Sancius.: Iguvine Tablets, Tabula Ia 24-34; VIb 22-42. (primary); J. W. Poultney, The Bronze Tables of Iguvium (American Philological Association, 1959) — the English translation from which these tablet references were recorded; see data-sources/audits/lane-1/umbrian-census.tsv. (secondary); Oxford Classical Dictionary, s.v. 'tabulae Iguvinae'. (secondary)