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📣 Exceptional discovery from the excavations at the Curia-Comitium (#RomanForum) [THREAD ⬇️]

An underground chamber has re-emerged next to the Curia-Comitium complex with a tuff sarcophagus of about 1.40 m in length, associated with a circular element, probably an altar. Underground burial chamberTuff sarcophagus of about 1.40 m in length
@dariofrance @museitaliani @_MiBACT @alfonsrusso @rogueclassicist @pompei79 @DariusAryaDigs The context situated below the staircase leading to the #Curia, built in the 1930s, is preserved for its symbolic meaning by the Curia above and coincides with what the sources hand down as the 'post rostra' point (behind the republican Rostra).
@dariofrance @museitaliani @_MiBACT @alfonsrusso @rogueclassicist @pompei79 @DariusAryaDigs Here's where the place of burial of #Romulus is located (according to Varro by the scholiasts of Horace, Epod. XVI). No coincidence that the #LapisNiger, the black stone indicated as a funereal place related to the death of Romulus, is located in axis with the underground chamber
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