Forum Boarium (at Rome)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
Rome's so-called "cattle market", the Forum Boarium is a key area of commercial and ritual activity on the east bank of the river Tiber. It is flanked by the Capitoline, Palatine, and Aventine hills.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/207271756
41.8888602204, 12.4808972083
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Forum Boarium (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Foro Boario (Italian, modern)
- Forum Boarium (Latin, 330 BC - AD 300)
- forum bovarium (Latin, 330 BC - 30 BC)
- Forum Boarium (at Rome) part of (analytical) Roma (unspecified date range)
- Aedes Herculis Pompeiani located near Forum Boarium (at Rome) (unspecified date range)
- Ara Maxima Herculis part of (analytical) Forum Boarium (at Rome) (unspecified date range)
- Forum Holitorium bounds Forum Boarium (at Rome) (750 BC - AD 640)
- Ianus Quadrifons located near Forum Boarium (at Rome) (AD 300 - AD 640)
- Insula Volusiana part of (analytical) Forum Boarium (at Rome) (unspecified date range)
- Sacred Area of S. Omobono part of (analytical) Forum Boarium (at Rome) (unspecified date range)
- San Nicola in Carcere located near Forum Boarium (at Rome) (330 BC - AD 300)
- Temple of Hercules Victor part of (analytical) Forum Boarium (at Rome) (30 BC - AD 300)
- Temple of Portunus part of (analytical) Forum Boarium (at Rome) (330 BC - AD 300)
- Tiberis (river) bounds Forum Boarium (at Rome) (unspecified date range)
- Velabrum bounds Forum Boarium (at Rome) (unspecified date range)
agora, forum, plaza (deprecated), forum
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Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, Tom Elliott, and Brady Kiesling, 'Forum Boarium (at Rome): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/207271756> [accessed: 25 March 2025]
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