Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia
Item
- Title
- Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia
- Drafter
- Heliog Chauvet
- City
- Palestrina, Lazio, Italy
- Address
- former name Praeneste
- Location
- Italy
- Building Creation Date
- ca. 110-82 BCE (creation)
- Century
- 2nd century BCE
- 1st century BCE
- Description
- current elevation
- current cross section, elevations
- sections
- 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.
- Techniques
- drafting pen with monotone water color
- Classification
- Architectural Documentation
- Building Type
- archaeological sites
- Documentation Type
- sections
- elevations
- Style/Period
- Late Republican
- Cultural Context
- Roman
- Subject
- architectural exteriors
- architectural interiors
- deities
- mythology (Classical)
- topographical views
- Source
- Seure, Georges. Monuments antiques, relevés et restaurés par les architectes pensionnaires de l’Académie de France à Rome
- notices archéologiques par Georges Seure. Paris: C. Massin, 1910, 190.
- Access Rights
- Public Domain
- Item sets
- Architecture Illustrations
“Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia”, Texas Tech Arch Design Images -- Open Access Collections, accessed May 11, 2025, https://exhibits.lib.ttu.edu/s/openarch/item/18916