Comitium of Pompeii
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 14, 2026 01:54 PM
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History
The complex referred to as the Comitium of Pompeii is located in the southeast corner of the square of the Forum and was built during the second century BC.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/980900398
40.7490621, 14.4854769
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Sala delle Elezione (200 BC - AD 99) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Comitium of Pompeii located south of Forum of Pompeii (unspecified date range)
- Comitium of Pompeii located at Pompeii (unspecified date range)
- Comitium of Pompeii part of (analytical) Regio VIII, Pompeii (unspecified date range)
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architectural complex
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Comitium of Pompeii: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/980900398> [accessed: 17 February 2026]
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