GAIA
A calendar anterior to Julius Caesar recently found at Antium
(
NS 1921, 118) notes, under 8th Dec., Tiberino, Gaiae. The cult of
Tiberinus on the insula Tiberina was already known; and that of Gaia
was perhaps carried on in the same shrine. Gaia is Gaia Taracia (see
CAMPUS TIBERINUS) or Fufetia, who is identified either with Tarquinia,
the virtuous Vestal of Numa's day, or with her antitype Tarpeia (Plin.
NH xxxiv. 25;
Gell. vii. 7. 4; Pais, Storia 12. 538 ; Mitt. 1921-2, 23-28).