Anyone who has ever been to Rome has seen the ruins of the Roman Forum and the nearby Imperial Forums. Each Forum has piles of stacked bits and pieces comprising parts of a puzzle that archaeologists continue to try solving.
One of my favorite ruins on a much smaller scale is located at the busy intersection of Largo Argentina and Corso Vittorio Emanuele which leads directly to St. Peter's Basilica. The area is about twenty feet below modern street level. Discovered during excavations in the late 1920s, it has been preserved as an archaeological zone and pieced together from fragments found strewn about the perimeter.
The zone is comprised of four temples labelled A to D. Its history is of great interest since it is the eastern end of the Porticus of Pompey leading to the Theater of Pompey, famous as the site of the assassination of Julius Caesar.
The two pictures, part of a moss covered column and a pedestal, stand out from the many shards carefully laid out in an attempt to eventually fill in the spaces of the puzzle of the Sacred Area.
If they can't find a use for these "bits & pieces," I could use some in my garden!
ReplyDeleteSo, how did you get all these photos of L. Argentina and not get ANY of the cats who live there in the pics??? :)
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