Roman Forum, discovered the district under Trajan's Column
Cleaning the area around the Column of Trajan brought to light earlier Roman structures of the Roman Forum, dating from the sixth century BC It is a vast complex transformed into a grain warehouse in the first century AD and a road, the actual street Magnanapoli
Unveiled at the foot of Trajan Rome. Or rather, under the Column of Trajan, where they were brought to light now the oldest Roman structures dei Fori Imperiali who write a new page in the history of the “Eternal City” from the sixth century BC, that is probably the epic of Rome King Tarquinius, through the age repubblicama, until the second century AD It is the remains of a vast architectural complex founded in the archaic period or high-Republican (VI-V century BC), which highlights profound alterations.
So much so that a portion of this building has been identified as a grain warehouse and groceries, a so-called “horreum” of the first century AD It is here, in fact, that can be read separately in the sequence of rooms paved in “opus spicatum” (the classic Roman pavement bricks arranged in a herringbone pattern) that were probably used for the storage of goods. “Besides, you also have to imagine that the Rome of Augustus had already grown to a million inhabitants and the city center had to submit an adequate number of food stores,” says Roberto Meneghini, the scientific director of the excavation conducted by the Superintendent Capitoline, under the close supervision of the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage of Rome.
Another peculiarity, the entire property overlooks a road, which corresponds to the current route of passing on the staircase and square Magnanapoli. “An ancient road, which dates back to even before the founding of Rome – says Meneghini – and that connected the Tiber Island, the port of call of the trade from the first millennium BC in Rome, with the Servian Wall, built by Servius Tullius , one of the kings of Rome. ” The work, which started in May last only for a thorough cleaning of structures, instead led to these discoveries in the hemicycle in the north of the Column of Trajan (113 AD). Today completed the investigation, by July we will proceed to the protection and coverage of the structures to restore the floor of the stage Trajan.
