• Hidden by scaffolding on the Roman Forum, the Lapis Niger ('Black Stone' in Latin) is a large slab of black marble that covered an underground area said…
  • During much of Rome's history, the Lapis Niger was a part of the comitium, the meeting place immediately in front of the senate house.
  • The Lapis Niger was rediscovered in the very late 19th century by Italian archaeologist Giacomo Boni. It is the site of the oldest known Latin inscription.
  • The Lapis Niger and the Grave of Romulus. On the boundary-line between the Forum and the Comitium there lies, at present protected by a wooden roof, a square...
  • The Lapis Niger is mentioned in an uncertain and ambiguous way by several writers of the early Imperial period: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Plutarch, and Festus.
  • archaic period sanctuary in the Forum Romanum containing an stone stele with a sacred inscription in archaic Latin.
  • Wikimedia Commons'taki medya dosyaları. Lapis Nijer ( lat. Lapis Niger , "Kara Taş") - Roma'daki forumda siyah mermerden kare bir yüzey .
  • Lapis Niger, the shrine where the first known Latin inscription was found, was already a mystery to the Romans themselves Niger lapis By La Brújula Verde.