CLAS 3P22 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Latial Culture, Tiber, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus
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Landscape of early rome: lowest point for crossing tiber, cattle market, middle bronze age pottery. Burials of early rome: cremations in later forum- 1000 bc, 1000-900 bc- beginning of latiae culture, hut urns and ceramics in dolum. Latial culture ii: early iron age c. 900-770 bc, settlements become visable. Osteria dell osa cemetary: tomb 126- statuette of figure making offering, other goods- bronze sacrificial knife, small pots. Fundemental myths: romulus and remus, aeneus and the trojans, son of venus and anchises, prophecy in iliad her will leave troy and found a city, found lavinium- important cult centre, son founds alba longa. Construction materials and techniques: stone/terracotta-> concrete, steps leading up to the temples. Development of temple: temple of jupiter optimus maximus (capitiline hill, columns don"t go the whole way around (not greek, compared to etruscan: only columns on the front, not sides; some similarities, some differences.
