What are fastfasti consulares?

Fasti consulares were official chronicles in which years were denoted by the respective consuls and other magistrates, often with the principal events that happened during their consulates, but sometimes not.

What are the Fasti Annales?

Together with similar lists found at Rome and elsewhere, they form part of a chronology referred to as the Fasti Annales, Fasti Consulares, or Consular Fasti, or occasionally just the fasti. The Capitoline Fasti were originally engraved on marble tablets erected in the Roman forum.

What is the history of the Fasti Capitolini?

Alternatively, the Fasti Capitolini may have been inscribed on the Arch of Augustus, in 18 BC. In either case, they were subsequently continued down to the death of Augustus in AD 14. In 1540, Pope Paul III authorized the recycling of stone from the forum for the construction of St. Peter’s Basilica.

What was the purpose of the Fasti?

In addition to the word’s general sense, there were fasti that recorded specific kinds of events, such as the fasti triumphales, lists of triumphs celebrated by Roman generals. The divisions of time used in the fasti were based on the Roman calendar .