Sources
plan: Freyberger, Fig.23a
facade: Atlante di Roma, Tav. 24 and Brown, Fig. 70b.
See also documentation of the basilica rule.
Related Buildings
Tabernae Novae
Timeline
- 210-191 BCE: A basilica is build in the northeast location after the fire of 210.
- 179 BCE: Livy claims the Basilica is built
- 166 BCE: Latest possible date for construction of Basilica Fulvia if they are separate
- 159 BCE: Latest possible date for construction of Basilica Aemilia if they are separate
- 78 BCE: If separate, Basilica Aemilia may have been reconstructed
- 55 BCE: Basilica Fulvia constructed according to Plutarch
- 54/50 BCE: Work done on the building’s columns by L. Aemilius Paullus Lepidus
Physical evidence
- The Basilica Fulvia and Aemilia are associated together in part due to a quote from Varro (ling. 6.4), though the text is full of lacunae and may be corrupted. The double name could be because it was originally worked on by M. Fulvius Nobilior; after his death, his colleague M. Aemilius Lepidus took over.
- On the other hand, Plutarch Caes. 29 suggests that these were 2 distinct structures.
- See Fuchs, Architekturdarstellungen, 49, 50 for the Basilica Aemilia
- Building is a stoa with a double row of columns.
- Located in the northeast side of the Forum if a joint building
- If separate, the Basilica Aemilia was in the southeast corner, perhaps. Three long walls of the structure here are preserved
- Northeast building (Basilica Fulvia) had blocks of tufa; built on tabernae
Literary sources
- Cic. Att. 4.16.8 (suggests work done on the building by L. Aemilius Paullus Lepidus)
- Plut. Caes. 29
- Var. ling. 6.4