The Sant'Omobono Area (Italian: ''Area di Sant'Omobono'') is an archaeological site in

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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) in ...

, 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

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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 Forum Boarium (, ) was the cattle market or '' forum venalium'' of ancient Rome. It was located on a level piece of land near the Tiber between the Capitoline, the Palatine and Aventine hills. As the site of the original docks of Rome () ...

. , 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,

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, 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 {{AncientRome-stub