According to the 1251 statute, the only vicinia of the seventeen existing ones that did not bear the name of a church was that of “Antescolis,” probably so called because it was in front of the school building, the seat of the meetings of the three consuls of the vicinia.
A peculiarity of this fountain, although overall rather similar structurally to the others, is that it consists frontally of two arches instead of one, connected by a transverse arch.