dc.coverage.spatial | Site: Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia (Palestrina, Lazio, Italy) | en_US |
dc.coverage.temporal | ca. 110-82 BCE (creation) | en_US |
dc.creator | unknown (Ancient Roman) | en_US |
dc.date | -82--110 | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-02-25T17:52:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-02-25T17:52:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | -82--110 | en_US |
dc.identifier | 196107 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 1540 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/103624 | |
dc.description | View looking down the central axis, looking west towards Rome, from the top landing; Praeneste was chiefly famed for its great Temple of Fortuna Primigenia connected with the oracle known as the Praenestine lots (sortes praenestinae). The temple was redeveloped after 82 BC as a spectacular series of terraces, exedras and porticos on four levels down the hillside, linked by monumental stairs and ramps. The inspiration for this feat of unified urbanistic design lay, not in republican Rome, but in the Hellenistic monarchies of the eastern Mediterranean. Praeneste offered a foretaste of the grandiose Imperial style of the following generation. The oldest portion of the primitive sanctuary was situated on the terrace just above the lowest one, in a grotto in the natural rock where there was a spring that developed into a well. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/12/2008) | en_US |
dc.format.medium | stone | en_US |
dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
dc.subject | architectural exteriors | en_US |
dc.subject | deities | en_US |
dc.subject | mythology (Classical) | en_US |
dc.subject | Late Republican | en_US |
dc.title | Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia | en_US |
dc.type | image | en_US |
dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
dc.identifier.vendorcode | 1A3-R-R-PF-C2 | en_US |
vra.culturalContext | Ancient Roman | en_US |
vra.technique | construction (assembling) | en_US |
vra.worktype | excavation (site) | en_US |
vra.worktype | temple | en_US |
dc.contributor.display | unknown (Ancient Roman) | en_US |