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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L2Y_roman-forum_Roma-Lazio.html
The Roman Forum retained its importance especially during the Republican period (5th-1st centuries BC), when the valley gradually filled with public buildings whose remains are still preserved. These buildings, which almost always originally had a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L2V_altar-of-caesar-ara-di-cesare_Roma-Lazio.html
Altar of Caesar
... deposed (beyond bare Caesar) in the Forum, where the palace the ancient Romans is, and you piled on tables, seats and the other timber was there ... ro lit the fire and all the people stood to the axes bonfire at night. In tha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L2Q_regia_Roma-Lazio.html
Located near the temple of Vesta, the Regia is believed to have been built by king Numa Pompilius as the place where the kings of Rome exercised their political and religious power. The plan resembles that of archaic houses and its royal nature is…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L2O_temple-of-antoninus-and-faustina_Roma-Lazio.html
Temple of Antoninus and Faustina
The temple - as indicated by the inscription - was dedicated by the Senate to Faustina in AD 141 and, when he died, to her husband the emperor Antoninus Pius (138-161 AD). The long walls of the cella, in square pe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L28_so-called-carcer-cosiddetto-carcer_Roma-Lazio.html
So-Called Carcer
The three small rooms opening onto a corridor with walls made of large tufa blocks and travertine door and window frames are generally ascribed to a Carcer; this is an error as tradition attests the existence of only one prison i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L27_archaic-burial-ground-sepolcreto-arcaico_Roma-Lazio.html
Archaic Burial Ground
Numerous tombs dating to between the 9th and 7th centuries BC were excavated in this area in 1902, with two types of burials: cremations and inhumations. The former, the oldest tombs, usually contained a funerary urn in the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L22_neronian-foundations-fondazioni-neroniane_Roma-Lazio.html
Neronian Foundations
The concrete foundations that run from the Forum around the corner towards the Palatine, alongside the Arch of Titus, probably pertain to the enormous portico that, according to the ancient sources, Nero had constructed as th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L21_so-called-temple-of-romulus-tempio-detto-di-romolo_Roma-Lazio.html
So-Called Temple of Romulus
On the basis of a depiction on a coin this building - unusual in shape for Roman architecture - is identified as the temple built by the emperor Maxentius in AD 307 in honour of his son who died in childhood. The circu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L1X_north-facade-of-the-domus-tiberiana_Roma-Lazio.html
North Facade of the Domus Tiberiana
The high multi-storey arcades that look out over the Roman Forum were constructed by the emperor Hadrian in order to extend the facade of the Domus Tiberiana to the Via Nova in an architecturally splendid manne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L1H_via-nova_Roma-Lazio.html
The name Via Nova is generally applied to the stretch of road that runs in a straight line along the north-west slope of the Palatine, almost parallel to the Via Sacra. All the literary sources that mention the Via Nova date to the Republican and …