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Forum of Pompeii
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Featured August 23 , 2006
The Forum of Pompeii is situated at the juncture of two old routes between
Pompeii and Naples, Nola, and Stabiae.
During the course of the second century BC, the Forum achieved its definitive size. The north end was bounded by the Temple of Jupiter (F) and honorary arches dedicated to Drusus and to Tiberius or to Germanicus (E). The south end was bordered by three municipal buildings (A). On the west side was situated the Basilica (B), the temple of Apollo (C), the grain market and warehouse (D). On the east side stood the food market (G), the sanctuary of the Lares Publici (H), the temple of Vespasian (I), the building of Eumachia (J), which possibly served as a wool market, and the Comitium (K).
Around the time of Sulla, the area was enclosed on three sides by a portico. The base of the portico was raised above ground level by three steps, thus the area of the forum was closed to wheeled traffic. During the Augustan period, the paving of the area in travertine was begun. It was halted by the earthquake in AD 62 and the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. The orators' platform (suggestum), situated on the west side of the forum, is also incomplete. None of the many statues whose bases are still visible in the area of the Forum was ever found. They may have been damaged and were never set up again after AD 62.
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