TabulariumBy Marina Henke

Location

• Built on east slope of Capitoline Hill in Forum

• Dramatic view of Forum

• Dwarfed by bigger buildings http://www.the-romans.co.uk/

prayer.htm

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Plan_Rome_-_Tabularium.png

Origin

• Built 78 BC - Q. Lutatius Catulus and M. Aemillius Lepidus (consul)

• redevelop Capitoline Hill after fire

• Not mentioned much in literature

http://www.ancientpeddler.com/images/antonybust.jpg

M. Aemillius Lepidus

Importance

• Held state archives + offices

• Idea of condensing archives was new idea

• In Middle Ages fortress built over remains– Prison cells + storage

http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=2624

Architecture

• Doric columns

• Frieze of triglyphs and metopes

• 11 arches http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Arts/Images/Elements.jpg

Tabularium Today

http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=2624

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Tabularium.html

Tabularium

http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/ge/CB-024.html http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/

Forum/reconstructions/Tabularium_1

Bibliography

• http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Tabularium.html

• http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Forum/reconstructions/Tabularium_1

• http://www.duhmiseryindex.info/tabularium-the-ancient-roman-archives/

• http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=2624

• http://en.museicapitolini.org/sede/campidoglio_antico/tabularium