Ex voto for healing from blindness
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Ex voto for healing from blindness
The tombstone is dedicated by Felix Asinianus, a slave of the priestly college of the Roman pontiffs (which probably received him as a gift from an unknown Asinius) who, offering the sacrifice of a white heifer (iunix) fulfils a vow made to the Bona Dea Agrestis Felicula, grateful “for the restoration of sight”. “Abandoned by doctors (derelictus a medicis), after 10 months by the grace of the Goddess (domina) he was cured with medicines”. By her grace he recovered the sight in both eyes (omnia lumina restituta), through the intervention of Cannia Fortunata, minister of the cult and probably the custodian of effective therapeutic knowledge.