Aemiliana (Rome)

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Roman wall remains from opus incertum in Via Rubattino 38, which, according to a hypothesis, belong to the port facilities of porticus Aemilia from the 2nd century BC , located southwest of Campus Martius near the Emporium . Could belong to.

The Aemiliana was one of the suburbs of ancient Rome , which were in the so-called continentia urbis . While the urban area in the narrower sense, the urbs , was delimited by the pomerium , the continentia included all residential areas outside the pomerium and the connected public gardens that were accessible through urban roads.

According to Varro , the Aemiliana was outside the Pomerium, in the southeast of the Field of Mars . This is also evident from a report by Sueton , according to which Claudius monitored the fire from the roof of the diribitorium for two nights during a fire in the Aemiliana which led to the destruction of the district . When the fire in Rome in 64 was largely under control, it broke out again on the sixth day in the Aemiliana, quickly spreading to the adjacent areas of the Field of Mars and destroying porticos and temples, including the amphitheater of Statilius Taurus , the oldest stone amphitheater in Rome.

The origin of the name is uncertain, but it may be derived from the buildings that the gens Aemilia built in the area. These included the porticus Aemilia on the Marsfeld, which led from the Porta Fontinalis to the Altar of Mars, and the 179 BC. Dedicated temple of Lares Permarini , which can possibly be identified with Temple D on the Largo di Torre Argentina . The urban character of the quarter described by Varro can be easily reconciled with the dense development that led to frequent fires.

Aemiliana is also called an area located south of the Marsfeld at Portus Tiberinus , the city port of Rome, at least one inscription mentions sand ships that were unloaded there and with whose cargo the building activity in Rome was carried out: navis harenaria quae servit in Aemilianis . On the Forma Urbis Romae , the ancient city map of Rome, the area in which the port's Trajan warehouses were located is shown as Aemili [ana] . Filippo Coarelli suggested that this name be traced back to an Aemilii warehouse that stood there in front of the Trajan buildings. Because of the strong Trajanic overbuilding, no older buildings can be found in this area, although there is an inscription. Most recently it was proposed to connect the name with the porticus Aemilia , which was outside the Porta Trigemina near the Emporium of Rome. The area outside the city wall from Pons Aemilius to porticus Aemilia would have been the Aemiliana.

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  1. ↑ Varro, De re rustica 3,2,6 .
  2. ^ Suetonius, Claudius 18 .
  3. ↑ Tacitus , Annals 15.40 .
  4. ↑ CIL 15, 07150 .
  5. ^ Emilio Rodríguez Almeida: Forma Urbis Marmorea, nuove integrazioni. In: Bulletino della Commissione Archeologica Communale di Roma. Volume 82, 1971, p. 112 Fig. 4.
  6. ^ Filippo Coarelli: Il Foro Boario. Dalle origini alla fine della Repubblica. Quasar, Rome 1988, pp. 147–154 Fig. 28.
  7. ^ Antonio M. Colini , Carlo Buzzetti: Portus Tiberinus. In: Stefania Quilici Gigli (ed.): II Tevere e le altre vie d'acqua del Lazio antico (= Archeologia Laziale. Volume 7, 2). Rome 1986, pp. 157-197.
  8. ^ Emilio Rodríguez Almeida: Aemiliana . In: Eva Margareta Steinby (Ed.): Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae. Vol. 1. 2nd edition. Quasar, Rome 1993, ISBN 88-7097-019-1 , p. 20.