FABARA
Zaragoza, Spain.
About 13 km E
of Caspe. Not mentioned in ancient sources. A large
tomb in the shape of a rectangular temple has survived,
prostyle tetrastyle, with shallow pronaos and naos. The
four columns of the facade are of the Tuscan order, with
smooth shafts carrying an Ionic entablature with frieze
decorated with garlands. The lateral walls have attached
pilasters. Only a portion of the pediment is preserved,
bearing an inscription stating that the monument is dedicated to the shades of Lucius Aemilius Lupus (
CIL II
Supp., 5851). Construction is in large stone blocks bound
by iron clamps. In the interior at the left of the naos
a stairway descends to a vaulted sepulchral crypt. The
date of the monument is uncertain.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
J. R. Mélida,
Monumentos Romanos de
Españia (1925) 134-36
I; Puig i Cadafaich,
L'Arquitectura
romana a Catalunja (1934).
J. ARCE
