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Fontus
Sign in to savethumb|Ornamental wellhead (puteal) (1st century AD) depicting a drunken [[Hercules as part of a Bacchic revel]] thumb|upright|Votum|Votive altar dedicated to the Divine Fontes (plural) Fontus or Fons (: Fontes, "Font" or "Source") was a god of wells and springs in ancient Roman religion. A religious festival called the Fontinalia was held on October 13 in his honor. Throughout the city, fountains and wellheads were adorned with garlands.
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thumb|Ornamental wellhead (puteal) (1st century AD) depicting a drunken [[Hercules as part of a Bacchic revel]] thumb|upright|Votum|Votive altar dedicated to the Divine Fontes (plural) Fontus or Fons (: Fontes, "Font" or "Source") was a god of wells and springs in ancient Roman religion. A religious festival called the Fontinalia was held on October 13 in his honor. Throughout the city, fountains and wellheads were adorned with garlands.
Fontus was the son of Juturna and Janus. Numa Pompilius, second king of Rome, was supposed to have been buried near the altar of Fontus (ara Fontis) on the Janiculum. William Warde Fowler observed that between 259 and 241 BC, cults were founded for Juturna, Fons, and the Tempestates, all having to do with sources of water. As a god of pure water, Fons can be placed in opposition to Liber as a god of wine identified with Bacchus.