fanum

This new quality is apparent in the location of her fanum, her name, her role: 1.

Fanaticus means "belonging to a fanum," a shrine or sacred precinct.

A fanum is a plot of consecrated ground, a sanctuary, and from that a temple or shrine built there.

Livy describes the meetings that took place at the Fanum between Etruscan leaders.

The oppidium contained public buildings, roads, houses and shops a fanum(Gaulish temple).

It was built at Fanum Fortunae, now the modern town of Fano.

There may have been an earlier shrine (fanum), since the Jupiter's cult is attested epigraphically.

It is one of several AA buildings named "Fanum House" around the country.

There is a tradition of sacred enclosures with marked boundaries (fanum) in Celtic polytheism.

The Romans also left traces of their passing, with the remains of a fanum visible on one of the hills.

Aedes is one of several Latin words that can be translated as "shrine" or "temple"; see also delubrum and fanum.

At the Fanum Voltumnae ludi were held, the precise nature of which, whether athletic or artistic, is unknown.

This gave rise to a characteristic Gallo-Roman fanum, identifiable in archaeology from its concentric shape.

Then Fanum Fortunae yielded-more cheers, more flowers.

Together with Fanum Martis (Corseul), they were the capitals of the local civitates.

In the 3rd and 4th centuries, like many other cities, Fanum Martis was renamed for its people, the Curiosolitae.

Compare aedes, fanum, and templum.

These trees either were located in and marked a fanum or were themselves considered a fanum.

The Etrurian confederacy met at the fanum Voltumnae, the "shrine of Voltumna".

Bewcastle is also known for its unusual hexagonal Roman fort, which has been identified as Fanum Cocidi.

Fanum Fortunae Modern Fano, in Italy.

It went from Rome across the Apennines to the Adriatic coast at Fanum Fortunae.

In ancient Rome only the native deities of Roman mythology had a templum; any equivalent structure for a foreign deity was called a fanum.

The word originally pertained to a temple or sacred place [Latin fanum, poetic English fane].

In spring 1988, news were published that Fanum Voltumnae was at last discovered on the volcanic ridge of Lake Bolsena.