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esponse to the famine that was recorded on that year. Given Fortuna’s past
history with the Annona in the Campus Martius, Fortuna Redux’s symbolic link
to the cura annonae undertaken by Augustus in 23 BCE, and the location of the
altar (isolated from the other cults of Ceres and Ops in Rome), this new altar may
have been symbolically placed in the vicinity of an Augustan Temple of Fortuna
Redux. 1016
No trace remains of the Domitianic phase of the Temple of Fortuna
Redux, nor the Porta Triumphalis, decorated with elephants, as mentioned by
Martial (8.65-76). According to Coarelli, they were destroyed in the fire of 80
CE; that is why there is no evidence of a Domitianic phase in the S. Omobono
area, where Coarelli locates the Fortuna Redux temple. 1017
He also theorizes that the three Marcus Aurelius reliefs depicting scenes
related to the Temple of Fortuna Redux, i.e., adventus and profectio (parallels for
which are found on the private reliefs inscribed salvos ire with Fortuna and salvos
venire with a divinity reclining on a wheel, representing a road), were part of the
“Hadrianic” phase of the temple. 1018 With the enlargement of the pomerium
1016 A parallel is the Ara Pacis Augustae which was later joined, architecturally, by the addition of
the Altar Providentiae, on the other side of the Via Lata.
1017 Coarelli (1988) 389. Coarelli (1988) 452 suggests that the Cancelleria reliefs belonged to the
Flavian phase decoration of the Porta Trimphalis, since they depict an adventus and profectio.
They were dismantled after Domitian’s “damnatio memoriae.”
1018 Private reliefs: Coarelli (1988) 391ff., figs. 94, 95, Stuart-Jones (1912) 51 n. 8, tab. 10; CIL
6.830. Three reliefs from dismantled Marcus Aurelius arch: two of are found on the Arch of
Constantine, a third was found in the Church of SS. Luca e Martina, now located in the Capitoline
Museums (Museo dei Conservatori). For bibliography: Coarelli (1988) 363-414, figs. 85-86,
326