L'architettura del Foro di Traiano a nord della Basilica Ulpia
In: Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma: 122, 2021
DOI: 10.48255/J.BCAR.CXXII.2021.11
This essay aims to identify the consistency of the surviving and still visible structures of the architecture of the Trajan’s Forum in the area north of the Basilica Ulpia. In fact, numerous fragments of walls relating to the two libraries and to the system of monumental staircases resting on them remain, incorporated into the subsoil, which allowed to reach the upper floor of the Basilica. Recently new discoveries of masonry, of the oriental library and of this ascending system, have been made in the basement of the church of SS. Nome di Maria. A reinterpretation of the foundation structures found in the subsoil of Palazzo Valentini (or of the Province), thanks to recent excavations, allows us to attribute them to the Parthian arch of Trajan rather than to the temple of the deified Trajan and Plotina.