- chapter 31: Orvieto, Campo della Fiera –
restructuring of the entire sector to which are assigned the slabs of trachyte that at the
northeast corner of the podium replace blocks of tuff. On the front are large slabs of
tuff that probably constituted the foundations of the projecting walls on either side of
the stairs. Further intervention, between 50 and 25 bc, sees the resurfacing of the fl oor
decorated with inlays of stone fragments and bicolor-motifs (Fig. 31.4). Along the south
wall of the temple, fl anked by a paved pathway, were found numerous bronze nails. Some,
in perfect condition, do not seem to have been used. The most likely interpretation of the
nails is for architectural terracottas, but the presence of such a large number of specimens
raises the appeal to the Volsinian tradition of the clavus annalis, which was affi xed to
the temple of the goddess Nortia (Cincius apud Livy 7.3.7), recognized by some in the
Orvietan Belvedere temple.
Figure 31.3 Temple A.Figure 31.4 Pavement of the cella of Temple A.