Did Sulla build on top of the forum?

[dianamt54]

Does anyone know, or where I can find if Sulla did build on top of the fourm? Julius Caesar did some work on the fourm and then his own fourm. Did Caesar build on top of the fourm?

[ASCLEPIADES]

Does anyone know, or where I can find if Sulla did build on top of the fourm? Julius Caesar did some work on the fourm and then his own fourm. Did Caesar build on top of the fourm?

Salve, D

From an old but useful source: Samuel Ball Platner , A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, (1929):

 

"The next level, which is in general 11.80 to 11.90 metres above sea, has been... assigned to Sulla by Dr. Van Deman (JRS 1922, 1‑31), who enumerates a number of pavements which belong to it: (1) those of Monte Verde tufa, near the shrine of Venus Cloacina and at the lacus Curtius, and the remains of a similar pavement near the concrete base in front of the temple of Julius Caesar...The central area of the Sullan forum was enclosed on three sides by streets paved with polygonal blocks of selce, which took the place of the early cappellaccio slabs; and some remains of the pavement of the clivus Capitolinus above that of 174 B.C., at 14.50 metres above sea-level, belong to this period also. So also does the viaduct (which Boni calls the rostra Vetera, but cf. Rostra, and Clivus Capitolinus), the top of which is at the same level. Of buildings assignable to the period of Sulla we know of little except the curia and the rostra, both of which were restored by him; while the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus and the Tabularium were finished by Catulus. "

 

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[Faustus]

From an old but useful source: Samuel Ball Platner , A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, (1929):

 

"The next level, which is in general 11.80 to 11.90 metres above sea, has been... and some remains of the pavement of the clivus Capitolinus above that of 174 B.C., at 14.50 metres above sea-level, belong to this period also... Please keep searching more recent sources.

 

Many thanks to you A. for this further information on topographical elevations and sources.

 

Faustus