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Saturnalia - Wikipedia
Gift-giving[edit]
The Sigillaria on 19 December was a day of gift-giving.
[35] Because gifts of value would mark social status contrary to the spirit of the season, these were often the
pottery or wax figurines called
sigillaria made specially for the day, candles, or "
gag gifts", of which
Augustus was particularly fond.
[36] Children received toys as gifts.
[37] In his many poems about the Saturnalia, Martial names both expensive and quite cheap gifts, including writing tablets, dice,
knucklebones, moneyboxes, combs, toothpicks, a hat, a hunting knife, an axe, various lamps, balls, perfumes, pipes, a pig, a sausage, a parrot, tables, cups, spoons, items of clothing, statues, masks, books, and pets.
[38] Gifts might be as costly as a slave or exotic animal,
[39] but Martial suggests that token gifts of low intrinsic value inversely measure the high quality of a friendship.
[40] Patrons or "bosses" might pass along a gratuity
(sigillaricium) to their poorer clients or dependents to help them buy gifts. Some
emperors were noted for their devoted observance of the Sigillaria.
[41]
In a practice that might be compared to modern
greeting cards, verses sometimes accompanied the gifts. Martial has a collection of poems written as if to be attached to gifts.
[42] Catullus received a book of bad poems by "the worst poet of all time" as a joke from a friend.
[43]
Gift-giving was not confined to the day of the Sigillaria. In some households, guests and family members received gifts after the feast in which slaves had shared.
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