The Sant'Omobono Area (Italian: ''Area di Sant'Omobono'') is an archaeological site in
Rome
, established_title = Founded
, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus ( legendary)
, image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg
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next to the church of
Sant'Omobono
Sant'Omobono is a church in Rome at the foot of the Capitoline Hill in rione Ripa.
It was built in the 15th century and called ''San Salvatore in Portico''. When the church was given to the "Università dei Sarti" (the association of tailors) i ...
, at the junction of via L. Petroselli and the Vico Jugario at the foot of the
Campidoglio. It was discovered in 1937 and contains much important evidence for
archaic and
republican Rome. It contains altars and the sites of the temple of
Fortuna and the temple of
Mater Matuta. An earlier archaic-period temple underlies these two, dating itself to the early 6th century
BCE, making it the oldest known temple remains in Rome.
The temples and their sanctuaries lie between the
Forum Holitorium and the
Forum Boarium.
, the archaeological site is under re-investigation by a joint team from the Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali of the Comune di Roma, the Università della Calabria, and the University of Michigan.
The site of Sant'Omobono is crucial for understanding the related processes of monumentalization,
urbanization
Urbanization (or urbanisation) refers to the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change. It is predominantly th ...
, and state formation in Rome in the late Archaic period.
References
Bibliography
*Filippo Coarelli, ''Guida archeologica di Roma'', Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Verona 1984.
*Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli and Mario Torelli, ''L'arte dell'antichità classica'', Etruria-Roma, Utet, Torino 1976.
Archaeological sites in Rome
Rome R. XII Ripa
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