A 1st-century relief thought to show the sulcus primigenius ritual during the founding of Aquileia, a Roman colony near moden Venice, Italy. The relief differs from literary accounts in that the plower is shown bareheaded and the team appears to be made of two oxen rather than a bull and a cow.
The sulcus primigenius (Latin for "initial furrow") was the ancient Roman ritual of plowing the boundary of a new city—particularly formal colonies—prior to distributing its lots or erecting its walls. The Romans considered the ritual extremely ancient, believing their own founder Romulus had introduced it from the Etruscans, who had also fortified most of their cities. The ritual had the function of rendering the course of the city wall sacrosanct but, owing to the necessity of some profane traffic such as the removal of corpses to graveyards, the city gates were left exempted from the ritual.
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The sulcusprimigenius (Latin for "initial furrow") was the ancient Roman ritual of plowing the boundary of a new city—particularly formal colonies—prior...
Look up sulcus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sulcus (Latin for "furrow"; pl. sulci) may refer to: Sulcusprimigenius, the sacred furrow created at...
similar sanctuaries, the Romans also undertook the ritual of the sulcusprimigenius when founding a new city—particularly formal colonies—in order to...
needed free use of both hands to perform ritual—as while plowing the sulcusprimigenius undertaken at the founding of new colonies—could employ the "Gabine...
first in mud-brick, then often in stone. The Romans considered the sulcusprimigenius—the sanctification of the course of a future city wall through a ritual...
of which abundant remains are preserved. The ritual plowing of a sulcusprimigenius—an act long shown on the reverses of the city's coinage—and erection...
of the city of Rome proper, as originally established by Romulus's sulcusprimigenius. The site was covered for most of the year, although it was uncovered...
the priest or official charged with guiding the plow creating the sulcusprimigenius during the rituals attending the foundation of new colonies. In Latin...
Tacitus, according to which the furrow ploughed by the hero — the sulcusprimigenius — started from a point in the Forum Boarium, marked in later times...
bovids on the Neanderthal menu: Exploitation of Bison priscus and Bos primigenius in northeastern Italy". Journal of Archaeological Science. 25: 129–143...
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