Lapis Niger
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Aug 29, 2020 04:20 PM
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History
tags:
votive,
extant remains
A shrine in the Forum Romanum adjacent to the Republican comitium, recognizable by the distinctive black paving stones that covered it in the later republican period. The shrine has been associated, in tradition, with the tomb of Romulus and/or of Faustulus. Giacomo Boni excavated the site between 1899 and 1905.
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https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/326532998
41.8927925, 12.4851833
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Lapis Niger (750 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Niger lapis (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Lapis Niger part of (analytical) Forum Romanum (750 BC - AD 300)
- Lapis Niger located at Roma (750 BC - AD 300)
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None
monument
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- Ashby 1901
- Battaglini 2009
- Capodiferro 2003
- Carafa 2005
- Carettoni 1960
- Du Jardin 1930
- Dumézil 1970
- Gantz 1974
- New Pauly Lapis Niger
- Platner and Ashby 1929 (Perseus), SEP. ROMULI (1)
- Richardson 1992 232
- Romanelli 1981
- ToposText Niger Lapis (Rome)
- Wikipedia (English) Lapis Niger
- Wikipedia (Italian) Lapis niger
- Related:
Pleiades
Filippo Coarelli interprets the archaic remains beneath the pavement of the Lapis Niger as being elements of the Volcanal, an archaic sanctuary of the god Vulcan.
Jeffrey Becker, and Brady Kiesling, 'Lapis Niger: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/326532998> [accessed: 05 July 2025]
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