By a process of elimination, it will be concluded that this honorary structure was most likely located in the centre of the south-east curved end of Rome’s most famous arena for chariot racing. Particularly interesting is the issue of the precise position of Stertinius’s arch within the Circus Maximus, especially in connection with the vexed question of the route of the triumphal procession in the Vallis Murcia. 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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