Talk:Nundinae

Etymology of nundinae
The DG&RA entry on the nundinae claims that the words' derivation from novem dies is given in Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Macrobius, but nothing of the sort is true. They simply explain that the nundinae are 'nine' day periods, without any reference to the origin of their name. — Llywelyn II   13:41, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Plebeian institutions
Similarly, Pliny the Elder's Natural History, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D18%3Achapter%3D3 Book XVIII, Ch. iii], is given as a source for the claim that plebeian institutions continued to operate on the nundinae but in fact only states that the comitia were banned on the market days to permit the plebeians to conduct their business of buying and selling (i.e., conduct the market itself), with no mention of separate institutional arrangements or conduct of legal actions. — Llywelyn II   03:47, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Sources for future article expansion
See the sources given by Ker (bibliography on pp. 384–5) and Francese (bib. as footnote). — Llywelyn II   08:27, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Paragraph to restore after DYK process finished

 * The nundinae seem to be marked on surviving Roman calendars in the nundinal letters from A to H marked alongside their other notations. Roman Christians adapted these letters for use calculating Sunday services and the date of Easter across years of the Julian calendar. In this role, they became known as "dominical letters".

— Llywelyn II   13:05, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Links in reference section
Considering this revision of the article, references 6, 12, 14, 30, 31, 38, 41, 51, 59, 61, 65, 67, 71, 84 and 89 have internal links to anchors that do not exist elsewhere in the article. Sometimes the mistake is obvious (e.g. wrong date for Kennedy, editor is cited but bibliographic reference is for original author). In the other cases if the broken link is ignored there is a very abbreviated textual citation which is likely to be difficult for many readers (and certainly for me!). For example "Graev., Thesaur." I expect means "Johann Georg Graevius Thesaurus antiquitatum Romanarum" but further help would be useful. The lack of linking to four works in the bibliography is, I think, unimportant. Thincat (talk) 14:20, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Improper Redirect
There is an improper redirect to this article that I have no knowledge on how to repair. In ancient Roman culture there was a 'goddess' of purification named Nundina. Her priests preformed a ritual cleansing ceremony on infants, Females on the 8th day and males on the 9th day preferably. This evolved in the very early Christian Roman period into infant baptism because it was a very significant aspect of ancient Roman cultural practices.

Unfortunately the page/stub where this information was formerly located has been subsumed into the article about the market week calendar and is no longer visible to those doing research on second tier Roman deities of the ancient empire. Most second and lower tier deities are completely forgotten because they have no impact on 21st century culture. However this is not the case with dea Nundina who infant purification continues in a modified form as infant baptism in several of the largest Christian religious denominations.

I suggest the forced redirect from all searched on Nundina be removed and instead lead to a disambiguation page so that researchers can determine if they wish to learn about the 'goddess' or about the week called the nundinae cycle. The Wikipedia page about the purification paragraph contains the link for the 'goddess' but the redirect send the researcher to the wrong page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_birth_and_childhood_deities#Dies_lustricus

Links to the 'goddess' https://www.behindthename.com/name/nundina/submitted http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:W4ECfIMQ-5UJ:people.ucls.uchicago.edu/~fspaltr/Roman%2520Religious%2520Practices.pdf+&cd=26&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-b-1 [quote]Births, Marriages and Deaths Births, marriages and deaths were of great significance. Juno Lucina watched over the birth of a child. But from the moment of conception a fetus had a host of spirits watching over it. After a birth a meal would always be made for the gods Picumnus and Pilumnus in thanks for their services. After, numerous gods oversaw matters such as breast feeding, the growth of bones, drinking, eating - even talking. Page 4 The naming of a child (on the ninth day for a boy, the eighth for a girl) was watched over by the goddess Nundina. The child would then be given an amulet, the bulla, which a girl would wear until she married and a boy would wear until he reached manhood and was given his toga virilis, between 14 and 17.[/quote] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tanada (talk • contribs) 15:45, 7 July 2018 (UTC)


 * I've just changed the link at the top of this page to redirect to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_birth_and_childhood_deities#Dies_lustricus as you noted, though I'm relatively new and not sure how to change redirects across all of wikipedia to the proper page (presumably, some other articles with links to the minor goddess Lundina will still redirect here) TripleShortOfACycle (talk - contribs) 22:15, 15 July 2020 (UTC)


 * I've just fixed the redirect, so no Nundina should show the page on the Roman goddess. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TripleShortOfACycle (talk • contribs) 22:25, 15 July 2020 (UTC)


 * The nundinal cycle, market week, or 8-day week (Latin: nundinum[3] or internundinum)[4][5] was the cycle of days preceding and including each nundinae. These were marked on fasti using nundinal letters from A to H. The earliest form of the Roman calendar is sometimes said to have included exactly 38 such cycles, running for 304 days from March to December before an unorganized expanse of about 50 winter days.

304 days in the nundial cycle plus "about 50" winter days is 354 days. Was a year shorter back then, or should that be "about 60", or what? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.14.21.6 (talk) 12:34, 24 July 2020 (UTC)