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These people's attire included symbolic red and white ribbons accompanying a veil called a suffibulum. These people were tasked with mixing salt and emmer to make the bread mola salsa. Plutarch described (20[1])how these people were punished for incestum by being buried alive (20[1])in (20[1])a chamber (20[1])near (20[1])the (20[1])Colline Gate. (20[1])These people oversaw (20[1])rites during the Bona Dea (20[1])festival. These people only answered (20[2])to the (*) pontifex maximus, who chose candidates between (10[1])the ages of six and ten to become these people. These people who made oaths not to marry for 30 years were tasked with guarding the Palladium and ensuring that a sacred flame never extinguished. For 10 points, name these ancient priestesses to the Roman goddess of the hearth. ■END■

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