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The Temple of Fortuna Primigenia in Praeneste was a religious sanctuary where parents brought their newly born first child to seek the goddess's protection for the child's survival in infancy. The sanctuary also housed an oracle consulted by pilgrims who drew wooden tablets, called sortes, to foretell the future.
The Temple of Fortuna Primigenia stands in Praeneste, now called Palestrina, 35 km east of Rome in the region of Latium, Italy. The sanctuary's hilltop position made it visible from across Latium, from Rome, and from the sea.
Primigenia is a Latin epithet meaning "first born" or "original." It was applied to the goddess Fortuna at the Praeneste sanctuary, associating her with new beginnings and birth.
The oracle at Fortuna Primigenia was consulted by picking the sortes, wooden tablets used to foretell the future. According to Cicero, the Praenestine nobleman Numerius Suffucius was credited with first finding the sortes.
Constantine the Great forbade the practice of consulting the oracle at Fortuna Primigenia. Later, Theodosius I reinforced the ban and ordered the temple itself closed.
The Praeneste sanctuary influenced Roman garden design on steeply sloped sites throughout Antiquity, and Italian villa gardens revived the same principles from the 15th century onward. The Victor Emmanuel II monument in Rome also owes much to the sanctuary's design.