Civic forum of Praeneste
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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Apr 08, 2025 01:34 PM
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History
The so-called civil forum of ancient Praeneste served as the center of the ancient city and was used across multiple periods. Its archaeological remains today correspond to the Piazza Regina Margherita and lie beneath the Sant'Agapito martire's cathedral. A large Etrusco-Italic temple of the fourth century BCE was situated here as well as a Roman-period basilica where the famous "Nile mosaic" was located in a flanking, apsidal room.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678434580
41.839434695, 12.8922161654
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Area Sacra Foro di Preneste - Antro delle Sorti (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Foro civile di Preneste (Italian, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Civic forum of Praeneste located at Praeneste (unspecified date range)
- Antro delle Sorti located at Civic forum of Praeneste (unspecified date range)
- S. Agapito succeeds Civic forum of Praeneste (unspecified date range)
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Jeffrey Becker, 'Civic forum of Praeneste: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678434580> [accessed: 25 April 2025]
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