: auguracula) was a roofless temple oriented to the cardinal points, in which the priests of ancient Rome practiced augury and ornithomancy.
[2] The auguraculum was structurally a very simple device, a small thatched hut, which appears to have been regularly renewed.
It faced east, situating the north on the augur's left or lucky side.
Within the auguraculum, the elected monarch, during the Roman Kingdom, was seated by the augurs with his face to the south.
[4] A magistrate who was serving as a military commander also took daily auspices, and thus a part of camp-building while on campaign was the creation of a tabernaculum augurale.