ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to address the problems by offering an alternative methodology for the study of pilgrimage in early Roman Italy. It demonstrates that archaeological evidence can have a significant role to play in discourses surrounding the role of pilgrimage behaviours within ancient religious practices and understandings, if pilgrimage is thought of as comprising particular forms of behaviour and not just post hoc rationalisation. The chapter examines the evidence from two locations in early Roman Latium, both of which can be distinguished by at least two separate experiences of place brought about as a result of mobile behaviours. Together these suggest that visiting sacred locations involved producing, experiencing, and engaging with a different religious place each time, even if the geospatial location in which they occurred remained essentially the same. As at Nemi, mobile behaviours are therefore attested at Pantanacci in a secondary form, through the objects that people left behind after a temporary visit to that location.
