Timeline
- Reign of Tullus Hostilius or Titus Tatius: Comitium is created
- 338 BCE: A large restoration of the Comitium occurs. Columna Maenia likely added
- 3rd century BCE: Remade on a Greek model, Solarium added
- 184 BCE: Basilica Porcia added
- 164 BCE: A horologium is added
- Sullan era: Curia Hostilia replaced with the larger Curia Cornelia
Physical Evidence
- Limited by the Forum Iulium on the north, the Arch of Septimus Severus on the east, the Curia Iulia on the west, and by a line of small wells on the south
- Pliny gives information that allows the use of astrological analysis to determine that the the Curia Hostilia was to the north and the Rostra was to the south
- Likely a quadrilateral with its orientation according to the cardinal directions
- Various levels of pavement are datable to the end of the 7th century, the 3rd quarter of the 6th century, the first half of the 5th century, the second half of the 4th century, the Sullan era, and the Augustan era.
Literary Sources
- Cic. Rep. 2.11 (on a possible date)
- Plin. Nat. Hist. 7.60
- Tac. Ann. 12.24