Lucus Pisaurensis

Sacred grove of ancient Pisaureum, Lucus Pisaurensis is a sacerdotal lucus lying just outside the coastal comune of Pesaro, Italy between the Colle della Salute (Hill of Salus) and the Collina (Hillside of the Springs of Beatitude) in Santa Veneranda. Santa Veneranda is a hamlet in the Pesaro e Urbino Province of Marche, Italy, a pre-Imperium Romanum region of the Latin Sabini, Umbrian and Estrucan tribes.

Pisaurensia Marmora, ("Marble of Pesaro-Umbria"), a manuscript written by 18th Century Italian aristocrat Annibale degli Abbati Olivieri Giordani, was published in 1738. In the preface, Olivieri reports having discovered, in the prior year, a sacred grove on his estate in a farm field by the little Chiostro di Santo Gaetano dei Conti. He calls the site Lucus Pisaurensis (Sacred Grove of Pesaro) and provides a brief description of his findings. Olivieri further states that he plans to publish a future manuscript entitled De Luco Sacred Veterum Pisaurensium ("The Sacred Grove of Ancient Pisaurensis"), once excavations are completed. This work however, was never published and interest in the lucus disappeared after Oliviera's passing.

21st Century

During excavations in the 21st century, the grove was rediscovered and archaeological interest in the site renewed.

Oliveri unearthed in his field, near the ancient fontanine by the Chiostro di Santo Gaetano dei Conti, 13 votive stones or cippi, carved of sandstone with Sabine inscriptions in Umbrian-Estrucan; a number of terracotta and sandstone artifacts; clay & copper coin; and a small semo replica in bronze inscribed Libra. The votives were inscripted with names of various Sabini-Estrucan semones: Salute, Fide, Lucina, Marica, Feronia, Juno Regina; as well as the later Roman Gods: Iunos, Apolenei, Diana, Mater Matuta.

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