Rarely ever modern academic books on the topic are as engaging and as well-written and readable as this one. This book is written in an engaging manner and sheds light on the topic concerned in a most masterful fashion, using various paradigmatic approaches, including modern statistical methods and Bayesian probability calculations with network visualization. It is critically cross-referencing with other disciplines of social and strict sciences . It fulfills its duty duly - exploring the stasis of temple institutions and sacred objects and their relation to the public strata at large of the given Roman Republican period. There are plenty of snippets, variete and interesting facts that are scattered across the book, while it performs a function of locatio and inaguaratio - like the processes of founding and launching sacred institutions - it names the genius loci and inaugurates the commitments it delivered. I'm wholly satisfied with carving out my time for reading it, and I was also inspired to read "Divine Qualities" by Anne J. Clark, that started off the author's escapade into writing this marvellous piece of research. Thank you. ( )