Il cosiddetto tempio gallo-romano tra realtà indigena e romanizzazione

The aim of this paper is to offer an in-depth exploration of so-called Gallo-Roman temples or “gallery-temples”, better known in scholarship as fanum, and of their presence in North-eastern Italy. This definition designates, as is well known, a structure with a central base-plan with a raised cell, which rises up like a turret above the sloping roof of the colonnade surrounding it. Despite its name, however, this typology of cultic space does not appear to have been strongly rooted in the pre-Roman culture of the Celtic territories; indeed, it seems to have become more widespread during the more active phases of the process of Romanisation of the Gallic provinces (as well as in Germania, Raetia, Pannonia, Britannia and Noricum) and develops more fully in the Imperial age, whereas in North-eastern Italy there is earlier evidence too