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Turris Mamilia
The ''Turris Mamilia'' ("Mamilian Tower") was a landmark in ancient Rome. It was located in the Subura,〔Sarolta A. Takács, ''Vestal Virgins, Sibyls, and Matrons: Women in Roman Religion'' (University of Texas Press, 2008), p. 58.〕 a densely populated, notoriously lively quarter of the city. The existence of the tower is attested by an inscription, and it is mentioned by Festus.〔''CIL'' 6.338377 (''ILS'' 7242) and Festus 116, 117 L, as cited by C. Bennett Pascal, "October Horse," ''Harvard Studies in Classical Philology'' 85 (1981), p. 279, notes 86 and 87.〕
The tower, considered by the Romans to be "very ancient,"〔H.H. Scullard, ''A History of the Roman World, 753 to 146 BC'' (Routledge, 1935, 1980, reprinted 2003), p. 61.〕 was still standing in the early Imperial era.〔Lawrence Richardson, ''A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome'' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), p. 403; the evidence for this is the dating of the inscription.〕 It was thought to have been named after the ''gens Mamilia'',〔As Festus states: ''Mamilia turris intra Suburae regionem a Mamilio nomen accepit''.〕 a clan originating in Tusculum who sometimes used the ''cognomen'' Turrinus, an adjectival form of ''turris''. Their mythic genealogy claimed descent from Telegonus and Circe. The Mamilian Tower figured in the ritual fight between the ''Suburaneses'', residents of the Subura, and the ''Sacravienses'' who lived along the Via Sacra, for possession of the severed head of the October Horse. When the ''Suburaneses'' won, the head got to be displayed at the ''Turris Mamilia''; the rival destination was the Regia, the original residence of the Roman kings. The Mamilii are thus assumed to have asserted claims to royal status in the Regal period. They escaped the traditional odium directed at the Tarquins through unimpeachable service to the Republic.〔Pascal, "October Horse," pp. 279–280.〕
Dumézil claimed that the mock battle represented the Mamilii as traditional enemies of Rome, but this has been criticized as "an improper emphasis," since the potential for an enemy to possess the talisman of the head would result in a bad omen for the state.〔"As inconceivably bad as if Guy Fawkes were to escape the bonfire": Pascal, "October Horse," p. 280, note 89.〕
What exactly the tower was is unclear: perhaps "a kind of peel-tower."〔William Warde Fowler, ''The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic'' (London, 1908), p. 242, note 4.〕
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