Roman Forum
Title
Roman Forum
Date
699 BCE
Identifier
1368
Work Type
plans (orthographic projections)
Work Location
Italy (nation)
Rome (inhabited place)
Style/Period
Imperial (Roman)
Subject
site plans
forums (open spaces)
Description
Site plan of the Roman Forum. "The foreground is occupied by a paved square with monuments to famous people. The temple to the Divine Julius, dedicated in 29BC to the deified Caesar (the first case of political deification in Rome), built in a Hellenistic style, is located in the background on the left; to the right is the temple of Vesta and the house of the Vestal Virgins, guardians of the everlasting flame (the only priestesses in Rome); further to the right is the temple of the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux (Greek gods whose cult was brought to Rome in the 5th century BC) dedicated in 6 A.D. Here the office of weights and measures was situated. The podiums of the temples of Caesar and the Dioscuri were often used as orators' platforms and it is in this part of the Forum that the meetings of the comitia took place. On the far right is the Basilica Julia built by Caesar in 54 B.C. Its long faade (101 metres/110 yards) occupies the entire south side of the Forum,"--John Julius Norwich. The World Atlas of Architecture, p. 160.
Reproduction Type
jpeg
Copyright Statement
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ID Number
A1REROM1-4699BP1A1
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