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floors. The orientation of the urban layout indicate its clear connection with the sacred area surrounding the Temple of
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Feroniae among the colonies of the interior of Etruria and from the order in which he describes the towns of that province, there can be little doubt that he means the celebrated locality of the name in southern Etruria. But it is singular that Ptolemy, who also notices a Lucus
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Several residential areas have been brought to light and are organised in distinct blocks, aligned with the axis of the later forum, these extend to occupy the area south-west and below the portico and the adjacent tabernae of the late republican forum. They include a beautiful
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Etruscan town, and on the whole it is more probable that the name should have been altogether misplaced by Ptolemy, than that there should have existed a second colony of the name, of which we know nothing.
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At the centre of the Forum was a series of altars and statues including 2 equestrian statues, one of M. Volusius
Saturninus, friend of the emperor, patron of the town and owner of the neighbouring villa-estate.
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Hellenistic town. long rectangular Roman Forum was bordered on the north end by a sacred terrace with a
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Excavations from 1952 show that the town developed around the archaic sanctuary of Lucus
Feroniae as a meeting centre and famous market. It was located at an obvious communications centre between the
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Archaeology at the beginning of the 1970s led to the identification of buildings which were related to the forum and were in use during the second half of the 3rd c. BC.
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The amphitheatre is the smallest in the Roman Empire with a capacity of about 5000 people. It was financed by a freedman, M. Silius
Epaphroditus, with his own money.
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Augustus (r. 27 BC - 14 AD) initiated many enhancements and new buildings including the aqueduct,
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It was partially excavated when the A1 Rome-Milan motorway which crosses it was built, and the archaeological site is adjacent to that of the ancient Roman
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Moretti, Lucus
Feroniae: centro di incontro sul Tevere, in Civiltà arcaica dei Sabini nella valle del Tevere. Incontro di studio 1973, Roma 1974, p. 22 ss
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goddess, and hence the festivals at her shrine seem to have been attended especially by the Sabines, though the sanctuary itself was in the
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territory, and dependent upon the neighbouring city of Capena The first mention of these annual festivals occurs as early as the reign of
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The basilica was built under Augustus and had a porticoed courtyard housing statues and honorary inscriptions. Under Tiberius the apsidal
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of Feronia lay behind the eastern wall of the forum and was accessible through a small portico built in the early Augustan period by the
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Feroniae, to which he gives the title of a colonia, places it in the northwest extremity of Etruria, between the Arnus (modern
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