Il muro divisorio tra il Foro Transitorio e il Templum Pacis. Considerazioni architettoniche e topografiche

Today’s extremely incomplete state of both the Forum Transitorium and the Templum Pacis forces scholars to attempt to construe hypotheses of various kinds and varying quality in order to arrive at a plausible building history for the Argiletum area (one of the vital centers of Ancient Rome). Moreover, even if this results in a credible chronology for the major interventions in the Flavian era (building of the Porticum Pacis, first layout of the Forum of Domitian, building of the Porticus Absidata, reversal and expansion of the Domitian Forum - inaugurated by Nerva in its new aspect and thereafter named Forum of Nerva or Forum Transitorium) the various phases in which these changes actually took place have not yet been defined. The author makes here a few proposals, based on a personal reading of the remains of the stratified wall that divided the two Flavian complexes and its doors, allowing (or in some cases not) for communication between them.