The Antiquarium Forense of Rome is set up in the evocative area of the Roman Forum; the collection, created in the early years of the twentieth century by Giacomo Boni, is housed in the ground floor rooms of the cloister of Santa Maria Nova, also known as Santa Francesca Romana.
In the first room we find the funerary finds from the necropolises with a diagram of the tomb indicating the place they occupied inside it, and in the next room are the objects found in some children’s graves from the 8th to the 7th century BC. The third room presents the materials found in the Temple of Vesta and finally, in the last room some terracottas coming from the oldest buildings of the Forum. Also noteworthy are the reliefs that were in the Basilica Aemilia with themes of the myth of Aeneas and the origins of the city.
