Emporion (Via Appia Antica)
With Emporion , formerly Tempio di Ercole , in is Rome one around ten kilometers southeast of the Porta San Sebastiano (about the height of Ciampino airport ) at the Via Appia Antica designated location excavation site.
The name "Tempio di Ercole" (= "Temple of Hercules") goes back to a mention of the Roman poet Martial , according to which Emperor Domitian dedicated a sanctuary to Hercules near the eighth milestone of the Via Appia . However, recent excavations have made this function seem unlikely. The archaeologists today rather assume that it is an emporion , i.e. H. a market from the late Republican era. It was surrounded by a series of grave monuments, some of which have been preserved to this day, which then accompanied the major arterial roads.
A portico led from the Via Appia into a rectangular inner courtyard, which was surrounded by columns in Tuscan order on the opposite and the two flanking sides . Behind it, on these three sides, a total of 15 shops or production facilities with walls in Opus reticulatum were reached .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The information comes from an official notice board on site
Web links
- Tempio di Ercole on the official website of the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma
Coordinates: 41 ° 48 ′ 2.7 ″ N , 12 ° 34 ′ 40.2 ″ E