{"id":6690,"date":"2026-01-13T10:10:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T10:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/educational-panels-and-maps\/the-market-district\/fontana-con-lucerna\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T17:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:50:12","slug":"fontana-con-lucerna","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/educational-panels-and-maps\/the-market-district\/fontana-con-lucerna\/","title":{"rendered":"Fontana con lucerna"},"content":{"rendered":"

This fine marble fountain stood along the Decumanus in front of the long portico built in the Hadrianic period (AD 117-138) to monumentalize the street.<\/p>\n

There was probably already a basin lined with hydraulic plaster on this spot from the Augustan period (late 1st<\/sup>\u00a0century BC \u2013 early 1st<\/sup>\u00a0century AD); the fountain was raised in the Hadrianic period to match the new street level and lined with marble in the 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0century AD.<\/p>\n

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Elevations and section of the fountain
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The fountain took the form of a basin decorated with a screen and completely covered in marbles, with columns that may have supported a pergola.<\/p>\n

At the centre of the basin was a little pillar whose top was shaped like an oil lamp from which water gushed forth.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tGeneral view of the fountain\n\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tReconstruction of the fountain\n(E. Santucci)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This fine marble fountain stood along the Decumanus in front of the long portico built in the Hadrianic period (AD 117-138) to monumentalize the street. There was probably already a basin lined with hydraulic plaster on this spot from the Augustan period (late 1st\u00a0century BC \u2013 early 1st\u00a0century AD); the fountain was raised in the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6676,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-albero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6690","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6693,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6690\/revisions\/6693"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}