Buildings
This building served as the lawcourt
What is the basilica (Julia)?
The marker of the starting point of all roads.
What is the golden milestone (miliarum aureum)?
This street runs through the Forum Roman.
What is the Via Sacra?
The original use of the Forum Boarium.
What is a cattle market?
Name 2 imperial fora, besides the Forum of Trajan.
What are the Forum of Caesar, the Forum of Augustus, and the Forum of Nerva?
The building where senators came to conduct affairs of government (give Latin).
What is the curia?
This shrine marks the entrance to the main sewer of Rome.
What is the Shrine of (Venus) Cloacina?
The event that determined the location of the Temple of the Divine Julius.
What is Julius Caesar's body's cremation on that spot?
The function of the Temple of Hercules Victor.
What is protection of traders?
The Forum Romanum's location was originally this kind of land.
What is a marsh?
Name 3 temples present in the Forum Romanum.
What are the Temple of Divine Julius, Temple of Vesta, Temple of Castor & Pollux, Temple of Saturn, Temple of Vespasian, and Temple of Concord?
The Temple of Saturn had this additional function.
What is the state treasury?
This building resembles the shape of a primitive Roman hut/house.
What is the Temple of Vesta?
This temple in the Forum Boarium was dedicated to the god of livestock, keys, and harbours.
What is the Temple of Portunus?
These are 3 typical design features of fora.
What is rectangular shape, colonnade around outside, empty in centre, pedestrian area?
This building served as the office of the high priest.
What is the regia?
The platform called the rostra gets its name from this.
What are ships' prows?
The function of the tabularium.
What is a records/archive office?
This was built to commemorate the defeat of the Dacian peoples.
What is Trajan's Column?
These two notable types of events would have drawn attention in the Forum Romanum.
What are funerals and wealthy citizens' processions?
This was built to celebrate a great victory at Actium in 29BC.
What is the Arch of Augustus?
A prisoner sentenced to execution could expect to be held here.
What is the tullianum/carcer?
The Temple of Concordia symbolized this.
Harmony/unity between Roman classes.
This government service took place in the Markets of Trajan.
What is the grain dole/Cura Annonae?
The design of the forum highlighted this contrast.
What is the grandeur of public spaces versus the poverty of other streets and buildings?