Reconstructive drawing of the facade of Basilica Emilia in the Augustean Era, viewed from the Roman Forum, 1905.

The Basilica Aemilia was a civil basilica in the Roman forum, in Rome, Italy. Today only the plant and some rebuilt elements can be seen. Image File history File links RomaForoRomanoBasilicaEmiliaDisegnoRicostruttivoFaseAugustea. ... Image File history File links RomaForoRomanoBasilicaEmiliaDisegnoRicostruttivoFaseAugustea. ... St. ... Roman Forum with Palatine Hill in the background. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Area  - City Proper  1285 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,553,873 almost 4,300,000 1. ...

History

Pre-existing building

The new basilica was built on a site where once (5th century BC) were the tabernae lanienae ("meat shops") and later (4th century BC) the tabernae argentariae, which housed the city's bankers and after a fire were renamed tabarnae novae ("new shops"). The square had two facing rows of shops. A first basilica had been built behind the tabernae argentariae between 210 BC and 195-191 BC, date in which it is mentioned by Plautus. Archaeological studies have shown that this buildings comprised three naves paved with tufa from Monteverde, the back façade having a portico which opened to the Forum Piscatorium and the Macellum (the area later occupied by the Forum of Nerva). Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC Decades: 260s BC 250s BC 240s BC 230s BC 220s BC - 210s BC - 200s BC 190s BC 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC Years: 215 BC 214 BC 213 BC 212 BC 211 BC - 210 BC - 209 BC 208 BC... Titus Maccius Plautus (born at Sarsina, Umbria in 254 B.C.) was a comic playwright in the time of the Roman Republic. ... Tufa is the name for an unusual geological formation. ...

The Basilica Fulvia-Aemilia

It was erected in 179 BC by censor Marcus Fulvius Nobilior with the name of Basilica Fulvia. After the latter's death, his colleague Marcus Aemilius Lepidus completed it, giving the basilica the current name. Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 220s BC 210s BC 200s BC 190s BC 180s BC - 170s BC - 150s BC140s BC 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC Years: 184 BC 183 BC 182 BC 181 BC 180 BC - 179 BC - 178 BC 177 BC 176... For omission and secrecy, see censorship. ... Marcus Fulvius Nobilior, Roman general, a member of one of the most important families of the plebeian Fulvian gens. ... Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (187 - 153 B.C.) was a Roman Consul, Pontifex Maximus and Censor. ...

The 78 BC consul, omonymous of the precedent one, embellished it with the clipei ("shields"). This intervention is recalled in a coin from 61 BC by his son, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (see images). Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC - 70s BC - 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC Years: 83 BC 82 BC 81 BC 80 BC 79 BC - 78 BC - 77 BC 76 BC 75... Marcus Aemilius Lepidus was a common name for several successive generations of a family in ancient Rome: Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (187 BC) Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (120-77 BC) Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (triumvir) (49 BC) Lepidus the Younger Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (consul AD 6) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational... Reconstructive drawing of the facade of Basilica Emilia in the Augustean Era, viewed from the Roman Forum, 1905. ...

According to other scholars, however, the Basilica Aemilia formed a different edifice from the Basilica Fulvia.

The Basilica Paulli

A new edifice in substition of the Basilica Fulvia was begun in 55 BC by Lucius Aemilius Paulus Lepidus, and inaugurated by his son in 34 BC. This edifice had similar lines of the preceding one, however with a reduced length and a second nave in lieu of the back portico. Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC - 50s BC - 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC 0s BC Years: 60 BC 59 BC 58 BC 57 BC 56 BC 55 BC 54 BC 53 BC 52... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC - 30s BC - 20s BC 10s BC 0s 10s 20s Years: 39 BC 38 BC 37 BC 36 BC 35 BC 34 BC 33 BC 32 BC 31 BC 30 BC...

The columns in the central nave, in African marble, had Corinthian capitals and friezes with deeds from the Republican Rome history. The columns in the second row were in cipolline marble and, finally, the external ones had Ionic capitals. Venus de Milo, front. ... A capital of the Composite order In Western architecture, the capital (from the Latin caput, head) forms the crowning member of the column, which projects on each side as it rises, in order to support the abacus and unite the square form of the latter with the circular shaft. ... See also Roman Republic (18th century) and Roman Republic (19th century). ...

After a fire, Augustus in 14 BC heavily restored the edifice. In this occasion te tabernae which preceded it towards the Forum square and the portico were totally rebuilt. The latter was entitled to two emperor's nephews (Porticus Gai et Luci): it had two orders of arcades with pilasters and Doric semi-columns. The two upper floors of the basilica (which, according to some scholars, were still unfinished at the time) were totally rebuilt. Over the upper order an attic was built, decorated with vegetable elements and statues of barbarians. For the honorific title, see Augustus (honorific). ... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC - 10s BC - 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s Years: 19 BC 18 BC 17 BC 16 BC 15 BC 14 BC 13 BC 12 BC 11 BC 10 BC 9 BC... An attic is an area found above a house. ...

The basilica was restored again in AD 22. On its two-hundredth anniversary, the Basilica Aemilia was considered by Pliny to be one of the most beautiful buildings in Rome. It was a place for business and, in the porticus of Gaius and Lucius (the grandsons of Augustus) fronting the Roman Forum, there were the Tabernae Novae (New Shops). Events Gaius Sulpicius Galba becomes consul Beginning of Later Han Dynasty in China Births Valeria Messalina, third wife of Roman Emperor Claudius Deaths Categories: 22 ... Pliny the Elder: an imaginative 19c portrait. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Area  - City Proper  1285 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,553,873 almost 4,300,000 1. ... Gaius Caesar (20 BC - 4 AD) See also Gaius Caesar , for others of the same name. ... Lucius Caesar (17 BC-2, born Lucius Vipsanius Agrippa and adopted as Lucius Julius Caesar Vipsanianus) was the second son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia Caesaris. ... Roman Forum with Palatine Hill in the background. ...

On the colored marble floor one still can see the green stains of bronze coins that melted when Rome was sacked by Alaric the Visigoth in 410 AD. An 1894 photogravure of Alaric I taken from a painting by Ludwig Thiersch. ... The Visigoths were one of two main branches of the Goths, the Ostrogoths being the other. ...

Conspicuous remains of the basilica could still be seen in the Renaissance: they were however used for the Giraud-Torlonia Palace (also no longer existing). In the traditional view, the Renaissance is understood as an historical age that was preceded by the Middle Ages and followed by the Reformation. ...

Images

Drawing of the remains of the Basilica Emilia, at the Roman Forum, by Giuliano da Sangallo, 1480.

Image of the Facade of the Basilica Emilia, on a Roman coin of Marcus Emilius Lepidus, (61 BC).