2016
DOI: 10.1017/s1047759400072032
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Sant'Omobono: an interim status quaestionis

Abstract: The church of Sant’Omobono sits above one of the highest human occupation sequences in the city of Rome. Some 3.5 m of sediment lie between the earliest known Bronze Age occupation lens and the base of the foundations of the early 6th c. B.C. temple, a further 13 m above which lies the floor of the present church, reconstructed in A.D. 1482. The site was sacred to the goddesses Fortuna and Mater Matuta for more than a millennium, before one of their temples was converted into a church of San Salvatore, rebuilt… Show more

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“…Our analyses provide further confirmation for the use of Lapis Albanus in the facing of the first‐phase (fifth century B.C.E.) platform supporting the twin temples of Fortuna and Mater Matuta (Diffendale et al, ). This had already been suggested by the results of Farr et al (), who sampled a single block (SO‐2) forming part of the eastern edge of the platform at its southern end.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 74%
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“…Our analyses provide further confirmation for the use of Lapis Albanus in the facing of the first‐phase (fifth century B.C.E.) platform supporting the twin temples of Fortuna and Mater Matuta (Diffendale et al, ). This had already been suggested by the results of Farr et al (), who sampled a single block (SO‐2) forming part of the eastern edge of the platform at its southern end.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 74%
“…(in the Carcer Tullianum; Karner, Lombardi, Marra, Fortini, & Renne, ), although the results of recent geochemical analysis from Sant’Omobono suggest that this date should be moved back to the early fifth century B.C.E. (Diffendale et al, ; Farr et al, ). Another “ peperino ” rock widely used in Rome since at least the second century B.C.E.…”
Section: Tuffs Used As Dimension Stone At Sant’omobonomentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…This has allowed us to check inconsistencies in the geochronological sequence and to recognize some apparent contradictory results due to the re-deposition of older material. Moreover, the introduction of mortar, a Roman invention of the mid-2 nd century BCE [ 26 , 27 ], defines a major cultural horizon in the boreholes, while well-documented building phases of the Sant’Omobono temple provide markers in the early 6 th and early 5 th century BCE [ 28 ]. Conversion in years before present (BP) of the archaeological ages, determined on ceramic fragments are reported in S2 File .…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Recent excavations and analysis of earlier fieldwork at the Forum Boarium site in Rome place the first temple of Mater Matuta chronologically in the period around 585–575 BC, with a second phase and rebuild around 530, and a final destruction at the end of the sixth century (Diffendale et al , 2016: 10–14, 14–21). Literary sources imply that her temple was rebuilt after the Roman victory over Etruscan Veii in 396 BC, but the archaeological evidence indicates that twin temples on an impressive stone podium, one to Mater Matuta and one to Fortuna, were constructed considerably earlier, at the beginning of the fifth century (Ovid, Fast.…”
Section: Locating Mater Matutamentioning
confidence: 99%