Villa publica
The Villa publica was probably a two-storey villa with the associated site and other buildings on the Martian Field in ancient Rome .
The villa was built in 435 BC. Established and in 194 BC. Chr. Extended. The consul Titus Didius had them in the year of his consulate in 98 BC. To restore. Titus Didius had in 100 BC Defeated the Skordisker and financed the restoration of the Villa publica from the booty of this campaign. This event is commemorated in 55 BC. Chr. Embossed Denar of the mint master Publius Fonteius Capito. According to Varro , the villa was simple in design, but extremely richly furnished. The existence of the Villa publica is proven until the end of the 1st century AD. Today there are no structural remains.
The villa publica was the seat of the censors during the census . It also served as a guest house for foreign embassies and as a recruiting office in the course of troop drafts. Generals returning from the war moved into their quarters until a decision was made about the approval of a triumph . During this waiting period, they were forbidden to enter the actual city within the Pomerium . In writing, Vespasian and Titus waited on the grounds of the villa for their entry into the city on the occasion of the triumph for victory in the Jewish war .
literature
- Harald Küthmann , Bernhard Overbeck in: Buildings of Rome on coins and medals. Exhibition by the Munich State Coin Collection from October 16 to December 2, 1973 in the exhibition rooms of the Bavarian Main Archive in Munich. Verlag Egon Beckenbauer, Munich 1973, p. 70.
- Frank Kolb : Rome. The history of the city in ancient times. Beck, Munich 1995, p. 128.
- Rainer Albert : The coins of the Roman Republic. 1st edition. Battenberg – Gietl Verlag, Regenstauf 2003, p. 170, no. 1357.
Remarks
- ↑ Livy , from urbe condita 4, 22, 7.
- ↑ Livy, from urbe condita 34, 44, 5.
- ↑ Varro, De re rustica 3, 2, 3-6.
- ↑ Flavius Josephus , History of the Jewish War 7, 5, 4.