![]() Yet unlike the two fornices in foro bovario, the single fornix of Stertinius in maximo circo has usually been treated by scholars in a most cursory and perfunctory fashion. Stertinius’s arches are the earliest recorded examples of a monumental type destined to gain enormous success in the decades to come, especially from the Augustan age onwards. ![]() The three fornices, funded from the (proceeds of the) spoils (de manubiis) of the war, were surmounted by one – or more – gilded bronze statues/standards (signa aurata). Abstract: According to Livy (33.27.3-5), in 196 BCE the proconsul Lucius Stertinius set up three arches (fornices) upon his return from the victorious campaigns in Hispania Ulterior: two were built in the Forum Boarium in front of the Temples of Fortuna and Mater Matuta, while the third one was erected in the Circus Maximus.
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