Lucus Pisaurensis

[1] The eighteenth-century Italian aristocrat or patrician Annibale degli Abati Olivieri discovered the grove in 1737 in Pesaro in a farm field he owned (Il Pignocco).

[5][better source needed] Olivieri said that he found the grove in a field by the Chiostro di Santo Gaetano dei Conti.

Olivieri wrote that he planned to publish a future work called De Luco Sacro Veterum Pisaurensium ("The Sacred Grove of Ancient Pisaurenses"), once excavations were completed.

[6] The votives were inscribed with names of various Sabine-Etruscan or early Roman gods: Salute, Lucina, Marica, Feronia; as well as the later Roman Gods: Iunos, Diana and Mater Matuta;[7] APOLLO, the Sun-God; MAT[ER]-MATVTA, an ancient semone divinity of luci; FIDE, an ancient goddess of High Divinity status, and IVNONII (Juno), a goddess of multiple origin myths,[8] are a few of the names inscribed on the stones.

depicting naumachia (mock naval battles) and a bronze Tabula Fabrorum with a relief of the Etruscan goddess Menrva (found at Palazzo Barignani).