Mefitis (Deity)

LC control no.	no2018143922
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Mefitis (Deity) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Mefitis (Roman deity) Mefite (Roman deity) Mephitis (Roman deity) Mefitis (Italic deity)
Associated place	Italy Rome Sannio (Italy)
Found in	Rainini, Ivan. Il santuario di Mefite in Valle d'Ansanto, 1985. The Oxford classical dictionary, 1996, p. 950 (Mefitis, Italic goddess, protectress of fields and flocks and provider of water, associated with sulphurous vapours. Her sanctuaries were widespread in Italy, from Cremona in the north to the Equiline in Rome, and to Rossano di Vaglio (in Lucanian territory) and Amsanctus (in the region of the Hirpini Samnites) in the south) Wikipedia, October 23, 2018 (Mefitis is the Samnite goddess of the foul-smelling gases of the earth. The Samnites occupied central Italy before the rise of Rome. Mefitis was worshipped in central and southern Italy before Roman times, with her main shrine in the volcano Ampsanctus in Samnium. There was a temple dedicated to her in Cremona, and another on the Esquiline Hill in Rome; In Roman mythology, Mefitis (or Mephitis; Mefite in Italian) was the Minor Goddess of the poisonous gases emitted from the ground in swamps and volcanic vapors) La dea delle sorgenti di Foce Sarno, 2014: t.p. (Mefitis) p. 87 (Mefitis ... a Samnite deity tied to water springs and the female world; following the Roman conquest, the Mefistis cult was assimilated and substituted with Juno's cult) Brill online, viewed Aug. 18, 2015: (Mefitis: The name of the goddess M. is derived from Oscan mefitis, 'suffocating, sulphurous exhalation' (cf. Verg. Aen. 7,83f.; Serv. Aen. 7,84). Hence the first evidence of a cult of M. is found on Oscan territory...)
Not found in	Harper's dictionary of classical literature and antiquities, 1923; Seyffert, Oskar. Dictionary of classical antiquities, 1956
Invalid LCCN	n 2015050790 sh 85083270