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Pits and fora: a reply to Henrik Mouritsen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2013

Filippo Coarelli
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Papers of the British School at Rome , Volume 73 , November 2005 , pp. 23 - 30
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2 Coarelli, F., Il Foro Romano II: periodo repubblicano e augusteo (Rome, 1985), 126–7Google Scholar. See M. Torelli, ‘Il ‘diribitorium’ di Alba Fucens e il ‘campus’ eroico di Herdonia’, in Mertens, J. and Lambrechts, L. (eds), Comunità indigene e problemi della romanizzazione nell'Italia centromeridionale (IV–III sec. a.C.) (Rome/Brussels, 1991), 39–63Google Scholar.

3 Coarelli, F., in Coarelli, F. and Monti, P.G. (eds), Fregellae I (Rome, 1998), 56–8Google Scholar.

4 Coarelli (above, n. 3), 34–7.

5 Livy 27.9.2ff.; 10.3ff.

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13 Coarelli (above, n. 3).

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15 For Mouritsen, the closest comparison with these ‘basin-like pits’ (p. 62) is at the temple of Gabii, for which the only reference he cites is H. Lauter, ‘Ein Tempelgarten?’, Archäologischer Anzeiger (1968), 626–31. Mouritsen seems, therefore, to ignore the more recent studies of the argument, which have demonstrated that they are in fact holes for trees: Gorbea, M. Almagro (ed.), El Santuario de Juno en Gabii (Rome, 1982Google Scholar); Coarelli, F., I santuari del Lazio in età repubblicana (Rome, 1987); see also Les bois sacrés. Actes du colloque international organisé par le Centre Jean Bérard et l'École Pratique des Hautes Études (Ve section), Naples, 23–25 Novembre 1989 (Naples, 1993) — the contribution of J. Scheid on the sanctuary of Dea Dia is fundamental. If this comparison is valid, as Mouritsen believes, it represents a clear confirmation of the use of the pits in the forum as holes for treesGoogle Scholar.