M. Lucullus’ name was carved on a fallen epistyle, a marble block intended to connect two columns. Where did the block belong? Gullini, the excavator, connected it with a building which ran between the two apsidal halls in the lower area. What survives is a back wall, built in the technique called _opus incertum_, a strong lime and rubble wall, studded externally with fist-sized stones of irregular shape. This technique was standard in the age of Sulla. The wall was decorated at regular intervals with two stories of half-columns, ingeniously combining function with decoration: they mask drainage conduits. The pavement in front of the wall shows the marks of two column-bases in two different rows, enough to justify restoring on paper a whole forest of twenty-four columns. Two dimensions are known: the diameter of the bases and the height of the half-columns on the wall behind. Their proportionate relation is appropriate to Corinthian columns, and some Corinthian capitals of a size to fit were found in the area. Working from these finds, the architect Fasolo could restore on paper a two-story basilica (Fig. 5.2, bottom) between the two apsidal halls (only one hall is shown in the reconstruction). The basilica is on a higher level than the newly-isolated temple to the south of it. The difference in level is made most clearly visible by sets of superimposed columns on the southwest side of the basilica (where the lower columns are below the basilica pavement level), by the pavement below the _piazza_ of the modern town, and in the façade of the right-hand (eastern) apsidal hall, which is in _opus incertum_, while its lower level, the colony’s _aerarium_ or treasury, heavily built of tufa blocks, had the difference in construction hidden by a portico with Doric columns. [Illustration: FIG. 5.2 Palestrina, Sanctuary of Fortune, reconstruction. (H. Kähler, _Gnomon_ 30 [1958], p. 372)] [Illustration: FIG. 5.3 Palestrina, Sanctuary of Fortune, inclined column capitals. (G. Gullini, _Guida_, Figs. 13 and 15)]