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Excavation

  • Foro di Cesare
  • Roma
  • Forum Caesaris
  • Italy
  • Lazio
  • Rome
  • Rome

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Credits

  • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

    MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

    ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

    AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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Summary (English)

  • Caesar’s construction of the earliest Imperial Forum, which would serve as the model for all the successive complexes, was inspired by both urbanism and propaganda. Built from 54 B.C. onwards, after the acquisition of a series of buildings, it was intended to take pressure of the Roman Forum. The monument was completed by Augustus after the death of the dictator. It comprises a rectangular piazza flanked by double colonnades behind which opened a series of tabernae, shops or offices. The north side of the piazza was occupied by the large temple dedicated to Venus Genetrix, the mythical progrenitrice of the gens Iulia from which Caesar was descended. This is a monument of clear ideological intent, and was the subject of two important restorations, by Trajan and by Diocletian. Without changing the plan of the building, these restorations modified substantially its aspect.
    On the short southern side recent excavations have brought to light the fourth portico, as wide as the side ones but single rather than double. Another portico opened onto the Argiletum, the road that linked the Roman Forum to the Subura. The excavations have also given important new information about the protohistoric period in the area, as well as its late Republican plan and the Medieval re-use of the site for habitation from the tenth century onwards. (Riccardo Santangeli Valenzani)

Director

  • Eugenio La Rocca - Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali Comune di Roma
  • Roberto Meneghini - Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali Comune di Roma

Team

  • Riccardo Santangeli Valenzani - Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali Comune di Roma
  • Silvana Rizzo - Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali Comune di Roma

Research Body

  • Sovraintendenza Comunale BB.CC.

Funding Body

  • Comune di Roma

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