Vesticius Sancius
Umbrian · deity · Iguvine Umbrian religion; 3rd 1st c. BCE · deity
Vesticius Sancius is a minor but independently attested Iguvine god: he receives offering in the remedial sacrifice of Tabula II, and a street or avenue bearing his name is listed among the landmarks in the augural delimitation of the city boundary, which is what makes him a figure rather than a word in an offering formula. He shares the cult-title Sancius with Fisus Sancius. Poultney connected his name with the Umbrian vocabulary of libation and proposed a relationship with Latin Vesta; that proposal is recorded here as a proposal, and the Roman goddess is kept as a separate record. The evidence gives him no kin, no consort, no myth and no iconography, and the entry is deliberately left sparse.
Domains
- boundary
- civic lustration
Powers
- to receive offering in the sacrifice performed to make good an unnoticed fault in the rite
Epithets
- Saçe
Relations
- ally: Spector
Sources
- Iguvine Tablets, Tabula IIa 4; VIa 14.
- J. W. Poultney, The Bronze Tables of Iguvium (American Philological Association, 1959) — for the name-forms, the connection with the Umbrian libation vocabulary and the proposed relationship to Latin Vesta; the tablet references were recorded from his English translation, see data-sources/audits/lane-1/umbrian-census.tsv.