Suovetaurilia

The suovetaurilia or suovitaurilia was one of the most sacred and traditional rites of Roman religion: the sacrifice of a pig (sus), a sheep (ovis) and a bull (taurus) to the deity Mars to bless and purify land (Lustratio).

[14] The first step was to lead the three animals around the boundaries of the land to be blessed, pronouncing the following words:[16] "Manius" in this passage may be an obscure minor deity, related to the Manes, or may be the equivalent of English John Doe.

Calvert Watkins versifies the text as follows:[17] Mars pater, te precor quaesoque uti sies volens propitious mihi domo familiaeque nostrae, quoius re ergo agrum terram fundumque meum suovitaurilia circumagi iussi;

utique tu fruges, frumenta, vineta virgultaque grandire beneque evenire siris, pastores pecuaque salva servassis duisque bonam salutem valetudinemque mihi domo familiaeque nostrae;

The Cabeço das Fráguas inscript (found in Portugal) describes a threefold sacrifice practiced by the Lusitanians, devoting a sheep, a pig and a bull to what may have been local gods.

The philosopher and historian Plutarch related in the Lives Of The Noble Greeks And Romans a story from the life of Pyrrhus about the sacrifice of a ram, a pig and a bull.

The suovetaurilia was an ancient Roman sacrifice where in which a pig, sheep, and a bull were sacrificed.
Right hand panel of The Bridgeness Slab showing a suovetaurilia. [ 15 ]
Suovetaurilia in a military setting, from Trajan's Column