Suburbium

Roman praedia as places of ritual practices

The study is focusing on the phenomenon of the sacred landscape in the suburbs of Rome, in order to illustrate the nature-distribution-evolution of cult places from the most ancient attestations during the Kingdom period up to the Imperial age. In the first part, the results of a research carried out on the basis of the archaeological documentation and the epigraphic-literary sources related with the presence of cult places in the extra-urban territories of the city of Rome. In

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