Trascrizione
At the eastern gate of ancient Capua, among the branches of a sacred wood, auspices and prayers rise to the heavens.
The whispers are for Màter Matùta, protector of pregnant women.
Here, propitiatory gifts of fertility and poignant ex votos of thanks are left on podiums and altars.
Like this statue of a woman carved in the grey tuff of Mount Tifàta. She wears a draped tunic and sits showing twelve children in swaddling clothes: eight in her arms and four on her lap. A scene of kourotrophìa – care of children.
Found time and again, solemn and standardized, in over 160 sculptures brought to light in the excavations carried out in the Patturèlli fund, home of a sanctuary dated 6th–1st century BC