# francishayman grisaille terracotta

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OTD May 15, Roman merchants celebrated Mercury's festival by sprinkling sacred water on their ships, goods, and themselves for good fortune in business.

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May 15th is Mercury's Ides when merchants celebrate the MERCURALIA by sprinkling water on their heads & ships from the spring at Porta Capena. Its nymph Egeria had once given King Numa Pompilius the laws of Roman religion before melting into springwater in grief when he died

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