Typology:
Archaeological Museums, State Museum
Address
Address:
Piazza di Santa Maria Nova, 53
Zone:
Rione Campitelli (Foro Romano- Campidoglio-P.Venezia) (Roma centro)
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Contacts
Telephone:
0039 06 699841
Opening times
Every day 9am-5.30pm
Closed 25 December 2006 and 1 January
Please call the museum before the visit to verify its opening times.
Description
The Antiquarium Forense was set up at the beginning of the twentieth century by Giacomo Boni in the convent of Santa Maria Nova. Materials coming from the stratigraphic explorations and from the excavations in the Forum and the materials discovered by Bartoli in the wells near theTemple of Vesta, consisting of animal bones and household furnishings (ninth-seventh century BC) are exhibited on the ground floor. The funerary trousseaus found in the tombs, the archaic necropolis, are also exhibited, including a plastic model, photographs, drawings, and the reconstructions of some burials. Children’s tombs carved in tree trunks that can be dated back to the middle of the eighth-seventh century BC, when the adults were no longer buried in the area, are exhibited in one of the halls. Imported Greek ceramics appear here for the first time. Instead fragments of architectures and sculptures, including the frieze of the Basilica Aemilia with the representation of the myth of Aeneas and of the origins of Rome are exhibited in the two halls and the gallery on the first floor. Sculptures coming from Juthurna’s spring and the portraits of emperors are also of great interest. Lastly a small collection of epigraphs is exhibited in the cloister.
Connections: Metro B - Colosseo Bus 75 - 81 - 85 - 87 - 117 - 175 - 186 - 204 fest - 810 - 850
Last checked:
2012-03-12 15:52