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FANUM FORTUNAE (mod. Fano)

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 172 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EUD-FAT
FANUM FORTUNAE (mod. Fano) , an ancient town of Umbria, Italy, at the point where the Via Flaminia reaches the N.E.
coast
  of Italy. Its name shows that it was of Roman origin, but of its
foundation
  we know nothing. It is first mentioned, with
Pisaurum
  and Ancona, as held by
Julius
  Caesar in 49 B.C.
Augustus
  planted a colony there, and round it constructed a
wall
  (of which some remains exist), as is recorded in the inscription on the triple arch erected in his honour at the entrance to the town (A.D. 9-10), which is still
standing
 . Vitruvius tells us that there was, during
Augustus
 's lifetime, a temple in his honour and a temple of Jupiter, and describes a basilica of which he himself was the architect. The arch of Augustus bears a subsequent inscription in honour of
Constantine
 , added after his death by L. Turcius Secundus, corrector Flaminiae et Piceni, who also constructed a colonnade above the arch. Several Roman statues and heads, attributable to members of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, were found in the convent of S. Filippo in 1899. These and other objects are now in the municipal museum (E. Brizio in Notizie degli scavi, 1899, 249 seq.). Of the temple of Fortune from which the town took its name no traces have been discovered. (T. As.)


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