Answer the following about an object called the vitta (“WIT-tuh”), which was made of wool and worn over the hair together with the infula. For 10 points each:
[10m] These people often wore a white vitta and infula together with the suffibulum. These people, who guarded the Palladium, could be buried alive as a punishment for incestum (“een-KEST-um”).
ANSWER: Vestal Virgins [or Vestals; or vestālēs; or vestālis]
[10e] Because they symbolized chastity, vittae (“WIT-tie”) were worn by young women to these events, after which they became uxores. The god Hymen (“HEE-men”) was invoked during these events.
ANSWER: weddings [or marriages; or mātrimōnium; or mātrimōnia; or nuptiae]
[10h] The vitta may have offered moral protection akin to this pendant worn by girls until the day before their marriage. The male equivalent of this pendant, the bulla, contained a phallus.
ANSWER: lunula [or lunulae]
<Albert Nyang, Other History>