| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The deposition of savings in the safekeeping of gods and saints is a long-standing feature of Roman and post-Roman religion around the Mediterranean (with the Roman state treasury, held in the temple of Saturn, being perhaps the best known case), so to try to ascribe this phenomenon wholly to either the profane or the ritual sphere may not be doing perceptions of safety in antiquity justice.
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