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Posted on: 02/17/2020 14:19
What it seems to be the tomb of Romulus, founder of Rome, was discovered in the Roman Forum. About a year after the start of the studies on the documentation produced by Giacomo Boni at the beginning of the 1900s, which had allowed to hypothesize the presence in the Roman Forum, a few meters from Lapis Niger and the Comitium, of a hero dedicated to founder of the city of Rome, the archaeological investigations planned by the Coliseum Archaeological Park have led to an exceptional discovery: in fact, it has resurfaced next to the complex of the Curia-Comizio a underground environment with inside a tuff sarcophagus of about 1.40 meters in length, associated with a circular element, probably an altar. The sarcophagus was excavated in the tuff of the Capitol and should therefore date back to the 6th century. B.C.
The context located below the staircase leading to the Curia, built in the 1930s by Alfonso Bartoli, is evidently preserved for its own symbolic meaning by the overlying Curia and coincides with what the sources pass on to be the post rostra point (behind the Republican Rostra) where the place of Romulus’ burial is located (according to the reading of a passage by Varro by the Scoliasti of Orazio, Epod. XVI). It is no coincidence that in axis with the underground environment there is the Lapis Niger, the black stone indicated as a fatal place because it is related to the death of Romulus.
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