Editing Fasti (section)

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The unified list states the magistrates for each [[Ab urbe condita|AUC]] from the first year of the first king to the death of [[Augustus]]. The marble entablatures were erected at the order of Augustus, based on information available to the Romans then, although the nature and validity of this information remains unknown. The degree of detail suggests that they were based on previous republican chronicles. The identification of their ancient location is controversial. The two theories are that they were in or part of the ''regia'', or palace, of the [[College of Pontiffs]], or that they were on a commemorative arch Augustus had constructed.

The fasti state a list of kings followed by the republican consuls for each year, with the ''magistri equitum'' and the ''tribuni militares'' for years in which these magistrates were eponymous instead of consuls; that is, once the practice of naming the year after the heads of state began, there had to be a head of state whether king, dictator, consul, master or tribune, regardless of what body held the power. The list features multiple dating schemes. To the right are years from the beginning of the republic preceded by an. or ann. for ''anno'', "in the year." To the left every ten years is a numeral stating the [[Ab urbe condita|AUC]] year starting with CCXC (the editors typically fill out these schemes; the list is seldom quoted as it is). The length of reign is given for the kings (the sum does not match the first republican AUC). In addition 5-year lustrations ("purgation", a ceremony cleansing the city of sin) and the [[Roman censor|censors]] conducting them are stated, which list is sometimes called the fasti censorii by moderns and stated as a third fasti capitolini.<ref>Greswell (1854), p. 4.</ref>

Feeney argues that the multiple scheme is evidence that the fasti were Augustan rather than republican. The kings are given precedence at the top and the AUC at the left as though they were superimposed on a formerly republican fasti. Moreover, the 5-year ''lustra'' date to 28 BC when the temple of Mars Ultor ("Mars the Avenger"), the imperial god, was constructed and took precedence over the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline. After that time the emperor must be one of the censors, who now presided over [[Glossary_of_ancient_Roman_religion#clavum_figere|banging in the yearly nail]] at Mars Ultor instead of Jupiter (the setting of this nail marked the transition of the year).<ref>Feeney (208), pp. 172-180.</ref>