THE ROMAN FORUM.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 175, 18 April 1908, Page 10

THE ROMAN FORUM.

NEW DISCOA^ERffiS ~„JSome; : ■ very:^interes'tmg I ' '.'oxbavatiqhs >; afo now ; being carried out-m the Roman 'Forum • by Oomm. Bom, who is anxious to. settle the' quostioniof. tho oxact- position 1 of tho .temple; r to:Jupiter ■.' Statori;':;which' | i iiiK:;;was'';io, % 'tb ; fbun3 ,oii' l i.tho r ./srch ;sqid ! ;fo ,'not'' tl(4f 9,ff'{t>h© : ifii, ,lsy: - ! '^t-hb. Romans_ and'- Sahinbs.", .'He,', howbyef only'a perhaps,i ; to'.nlt'(i,r;<.'Thb tbjnpjo was-built-in the of ,Attilus. Rog-uiusi -294 8.C., - i Pollomiig. tho, . directionof' tho Cln:ua Capjtoliiius bnd / the YiajSacra, and keeping in mind tho Republican orientation of; tho Forum, Comm. Boni sought s quito' close to the Arch'.of.-Titusj for,traces, of. the' ancient edificb,; aitid hero, lie hbs. x fourid two parallel walls,, consisting of. groat.'square masses of tufa," beafihg the-' well knowii maito, that ;aro to bo, found : on- the> Republican cityW'alls, ahdVivhich- Professor. Boni considers , were connected with; inaugural' rite§.. Should ' these prove:- tb .bo ;theV remains, of-tho great ltbmploivitvwill r :bb,:the .Wery spot where the ; Senate, sometimes , and''where Cicero ;ofi> Catiline. A • wbllicwhic,h;j.lias/..bee'n ?iound --elbsb" to '.these [.niossive .stalls t contained v "Various:• utensils of ithp secondhand .third: a vase dbcoratibn^cohSisting' bf ift >-ortiarfs head, a bronze quadraiiS.-'.lead lamps, and I various* articles rof "black' EtruscoiCampanic p.ottery. The connection■' between' ,'tlie, Palatine and tho For urn will Shortly be" completed by that portion'bf thb':Via Sacra on which, even as late , as. the times of Augustus, tho. Porta' Mbgoiiia stood'■ which was one of tho; four gates of the 1 citta quadrat a. ' ' 1 ,