Regia
 Panorama of the ruins of the Regia | |
   Regia Shown within Rome | |
| Location | Regio VIII Forum Romanum |
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| Coordinates | 41°53′31″N 12°29′11″E / 41.89194°N 12.48639°E |
| Type | Ancient Type of Domus |
| History | |
| Builder | Unknown builder |
| Founded | Archaic through Imperial periods |
The Regia ("Royal house")
History
According to ancient tradition it was built by the second king of Rome,
The archives of the pontifices were kept here, the formulas of all kinds of prayers, vows, sacrifices, etc., the state calendar of sacred days, the Annales — the record of events of each year for public reference — and the laws relating to marriage, death, wills, etc.
The Regia was the place of assembly of the
Architecture
The rebuilt structure (which seems to have been transformed into a private residential building sometime during the 7th or 8th centuries) had an irregularly formed enclosed courtyard that was paved in tuff with a wooden portico. The interior was divided into three rooms with entrance from the courtyard into the middle room.
The West Room was the shrine of
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The East Room contained a sanctuary of Ops Consiva, so sacred that only the pontifex maximus and the Vestal Virgins were allowed to enter it.
The site of the Regia has been investigated via archaeological excavation for some time, although a comprehensive publication of the site is still forthcoming. The site was first cleared between 1872 and 1875.[4] In 1876 F. Dutert discussed the site in his volume on the Forum Romanum,[7] and, subsequently, Nichols identified the site as being the Regia in 1886.[4] The site was explored again by Hülsen in 1889. The Italian archaeologist Giacomo Boni[8] conducted excavations at the site in 1899. The American archaeologist Frank Brown dug at the site in the 1930s and again in the 1960s.[4] The architectural terracottas from the Brown excavations were published in 1995.[9]
References
- ISBN 9780470425237.
- ^ "The Regia in the Roman Forum".
- ^ Ovid Fasti 6.263 Archived 2014-06-06 at the Wayback Machine; Tacitus Annales 15.41 Archived 2014-08-11 at the Wayback Machine; Cass. Dio fr. 1.6.2; Plutarch Numa 14; Festus L 346–348
- ^ JSTOR 4238582.
- ^ Ogilvie, Robert (1976). Early Rome and the Etruscans. Glasgow: Fontana/Collins. p. 36.
- ^ Koptev, Aleksandr (January 2012). "Rex Sacrorum: The Roman King in Space and Time". Ollodagos: Actes de la Société Belge d'Études Celtiques. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
- ^ Ferdinand Dutert (1876). Le Forum romain et les forums de Jules César, d'Auguste, de Vespasien, de Nerva et de Trajan, état actuel des découvertes et étude restaurée, par Ferdinand Dutert... A. Lévy.
- ^ http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/877883696 [bare URL]
- ^ http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32698913 [bare URL]
Sources
- Brown, F. E. 1935. "The Regia." Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 12:67–88.
- Carnabucci, E. 2012. Regia : nuovi dati archeologici dagli appunti inediti di Giacomo Boni. Rome: Edizioni Quasar. ISBN 9788871404998
- Downey, S. B. 1995. Architectural terracottas from the Regia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 9780472105717
- Losehand, Joachim (2007). Häuser für die Herrscher Roms und Athens?: Überlegungen zu Funktion und Bedeutung von Gebäude F auf der Athener Agora und der Regia auf dem Forum Romanum. Hamburg: Dr. Kovac. ISBN 978-3-8300-3397-4.
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