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The contribution focuses on the transformation of temples into fora of indigenous centres and of colonies into actual capitolia. Multiple solutions are found within the diverse cisalpine landscape. Therefore, it becomes interesting to define the dynamics that resulted in different solutions adopted on an urban and architectural plane. Such solutions produced in some cases actual overlapping between worship places, in other cases they produced a clear separation between them. A quick analysis of the multiple cisalpine centres shows how difficult it is to argue for a unified solution.

Recent coin finds in ancient Altino allow us to reconsider the representativeness of previous, already published coin finds from the same city. The comparison between old and new samples of Late Roman coins (294 to 498 AD) from Altino shows that there are only relatively slight differences, if you consider all the coins as a whole. On the contrary, if you take specific sub-samples (defined by chronology, origin or typology) into account, it emerges that there are some considerable discrepancies, and it is therefore evident that the these sub-samples are far less representative.

The paper focuses the attention on the features and chronological development of cult in preroman Veneto. In this perspective the Author analyzes the beginning of the most important worship, connecting them to the time of making cities. At the beginning, probably around the half of 7° cent. BC, the most important sanctuaries are the one devoted to Reitia and the one devoted to Alkomnoi, both in Este; a third relevant worship is near the hill, at Montegrotto, connected to the city of Padua. Only in the middle of the 6° century BC other worship evolved, in different places and with different purposes, both in the mountains and in the plain. Between them, the sanctuary of the God Altno- in Altino is one of the most important for the boundary function near the Adriatic sea and the connection with Picenes, Etruscans and Greeks.

The funerary relief with portraits of a family, placed in Mantua about 1660-70 and perhaps acquired in Venice by the Duke Carlo II Gonzaga Nevers, is a work by a clever sculptor of Este but influenced by the Altino's art. Dating in Tiberius 's late kingdom. L'edicola funeraria a ritratti, portata a Mantova intorno al 1660-70 e forse acquistata a Venezia dal duca Carlo I Gonzaga Nevers, appare opera atestina influenzata dall'arte altinate databile alla tarda età tiberiana.

Il contributo analizza le trasformazioni subite dai templi forensi dei centri indigeni e delle colonie e la loro eventuale trasformazione in capitolia nell’Italia nord-orientale. Le soluzioni si presentano molto diversificate nel contesto cisalpino al punto da rendere di estremo interesse valutare ogni singolo contesto dal punto di vista urbanistico, architettonico e cultuale. In alcuni casi si produce, infatti, una sorta di sovrapposizione tra il culto poliadico e quello capitolino, mentre in altri si opera una netta separazione tra questi. In altri contesti, laddove l’indentità indigena si presenta marcata, il tempio forense non si trasforma affatto in capitolium. Una rapida analisi ‘campione’ di alcuni centri cisalpini dimostra come sia complesso individuare un modello unitario per questo fenomeno.