The lapis niger latin black stone is an ancient shrine in the roman forum.
Marble forum rome.
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In the popular imagination its temples and palaces gleam with polished white marble while a visit to the ruins of the roman forum or a viewing of russell crowe s gladiator is tinted with beige and ochre.
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The many marbles of ancient rome a lot of people think of ancient rome as a pretty monochrome place.
The roman forum also known by its latin name forum romanum italian.
Foro romano is a rectangular forum surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of the city of rome citizens of the ancient city referred to this space originally a marketplace as the forum magnum or simply the forum.
For centuries the forum was the center of day to day life.
Trajan s column monument that was erected in 106 113 ce by the roman emperor trajan and survives intact in the ruins of trajan s forum in rome.
The marble column is of the roman doric order and it measures 125 feet 38 meters high together with the pedestal which contains a chamber that served as trajan s tomb.
The temple was razed to the ground when rome was sacked by the goths in the early 5th century.
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