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5 - Connecting Foundations and Roofs

The Satricum Sacellum and the Sant’Omobono Sanctuary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2022

By
Patricia S. Lulof  and
Loes Opgenhaffen
Edited by
Charlotte R. Potts
Charlotte R. Potts
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Summary

This chapter reconnects the architectural terracottas from different roofs of the cult building on the acropolis at Satricum with related foundations and in the process discovers a hitherto-unknown temple. While it was known that the cult building at the site went through multiple phases of extension, refurbishment, and reconstruction, the application of 3D modelling techniques in which all elements of the buildings are connected has succeeded in reconciling problematic data by identifying a new structure named ‘Sacellum II’. When the results are compared to contemporary temples in Rome, the relative precociousness of different cities’ architecture can be re-evaluated, leading to the suggestion that Caere, along with eastern Greece and Sicily, may have been influential in the development of religious architecture in central Italy. The project shows the value of studying terracottas and foundations together, something that is not done as a matter of course.

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Archaic periodSatricumsacellumSant’Omobonoearly Rome3D modellingtemple constructionarchitectural terracottasAthena and Heracles acroterionCaere
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Architecture in Ancient Central Italy
Connections in Etruscan and Early Roman Building
 , pp. 125 - 147
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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