L’area centrale di Lucus Feroniae in età augustea

Abstract

The Colony of Lucus Feroniae was deducted in Sullan Age after the destruction and defunctionalization of the ancient sanctuary of the Goddes Feronia. At this stage, the forum occupies a part of the original sanctuary’s square, with a raised area in the highest spot; in this Capitoline area was built a little shrine, as the polyadic temple of the colony. In the early Augustan age we recognize a new building and city planning phase under the Volusii Saturnini control: Augustus gives to the colony the sacellum of the Genius coloniae, beside the old polyadic temple, and consequently change the axis of the forum complex with a series of planning and building transformations (later monuments in the forum area will align on this new axis).
In the Capitoline area several shrines and statues were dedicated to the members of the Augustan family and so the complex became a Caesareum.

Keywords: Lucus Feroniae, Augustan Age, Roman Epigraphy, Roman Architecture, Roman Urbanistic