• The Lapis Niger - Myth at the Heart of the Roman Empire (5/7).
  • 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).
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  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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 sanctuary consisted of an open-air horseshoe shaped altar, a column which was probably for the cult statue, and an inscribed stela, the Lapis Niger...
  • For a rivetingly detailed description of the Lapis Niger site from 1906, see Lacus Curtius’ transcription of The Roman Forum by Christian Hülsen.
  • The Lapis Niger (Latin, "Black Stone") is an ancient shrine in the Roman Forum. Together with the associated Vulcanal (a sanctuary to Vulcan) it constitutes the only...