The Forensic Antiquarium of Rome is set up in the evocative area of the Roman Forum; the collection, created in the early twentieth century by Giacomo Boni, is housed in the rooms on the ground floor of the cloister of Santa Maria Nova, also known as Santa Francesca Romana.
In the first room, there are funeral artifacts from the necropolises, with a diagram of the tomb indicating the place they occupied inside it, and in the next room are objects found in some children’s tombs dating from the 8th to the 7th century BC. The third room displays materials recovered from the Temple of Vesta and finally, in the last room, some terracotta pieces coming from the oldest buildings in the Forum. Also noteworthy are the reliefs that were located in the Basilica Aemilia, featuring themes from the myth of Aeneas and the origins of the city.
