<p>A temple was dedicated to Faunus, an ancient Latin god of the forest and its prophetic voices (<i>OCD</i> 590), in 196 B.C. at the N end of the Tiber island (*Insula Tiberina; Ov., <i>Fast</i>. 2.193-94; Livy 33.42.10: <i>aedem ... Fauni</i>, 34.53.4; Degrassi; Richardson). It was vowed by the <i>tribuni plebis</i>, Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus and C. Scribonius Curio, and dedicated by the <i>praetor urbanus</i> of the time (Brucia). Vitruvius (<i>De arch</i>. 3.2.3) mentions the building as an example of the tetrastyle, prostyle temple: <i>huius exemplar est in insula Tiberina in aede Iovis et Fauni</i>. There is disagreement among scholars whether this expression should be interpreted as a temple to Jupiter and Faunus (Richardson) or as separate temples for the two gods (Brucia 44). In any case, no archaeological remains can be associated with these structures (*Iuppiter Iurarius).</p>