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GCSE Classics · key term
The internal organs of an animal, examined during some Roman sacrifices for religious signs.
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Paper 1
Revise: RomeOnce the offering had been judged acceptable, the entrails were cooked and offered to the god. In sacrifices to heavenly gods, they were burnt on the altar with wine and more mola salsa. Offerings to underworld deities and the spirits of the dead were placed on the ground instead.
Distinguish officials precisely: pontiffs supervise religious practice, augurs interpret auspices, and a haruspex examines sacrificial entrails.
In Roman animal sacrifice, distinguish the entrails offered to the god from the remaining meat eaten by people. Explain that unfavourable entrails could require the sacrifice to be repeated.
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