Report from Rome

Abandoned along the sides of the Via dei Fori Imperiali for more than 30 years after the end of the Second World War, the imperial fora have now, at the end of the 20th century, once again become a major focus of scholarly activity in Rome. In the last several years new books and articles on the Markets of Trajan and the Fora of Caesar, Nerva (the Forum Transitorium), and Trajan have been published; others are about to appear. Much work has been done on the previously cleared structures in the Forum of Augustus, and Edoardo Tortorici has directed major excavations at the west end of the Forum of Nerva (a report on his 1995 season appears in this newsletter). The following account summarizes these recent studies and looks forward to a new series of large-scale excavations in the imperial fora (announced in connection with the Jubilee Year of 2000). Reviewing also "The Places of Imperial Consent," a 1995-1996 exhibition in the Markets of Trajan of antiquities from the Fora of Augustus and Trajan (the harbinger of a projected Museum of the Imperial Fora), this report concludes with a brief characterization of recent scholarly interpretations of the interrelationships and significance of the several imperial fora

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