{"id":6611,"date":"2026-01-12T17:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/educational-panels-and-maps\/the-central-area-and-the-official-complexes\/area-sacra-repubblicana\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:31:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:31:25","slug":"area-sacra-repubblicana","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/educational-panels-and-maps\/the-central-area-and-the-official-complexes\/area-sacra-repubblicana\/","title":{"rendered":"Area Sacra Repubblicana"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republican Sacred Area lays outside the walls of the\u00a0castrum<\/em>, near an ancient road linking Ostia to the mouth of the Tiber, the same route followed by the later Via della Foce.<\/p>\n

From the 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0century BC onwards, some of Ostia\u2019s most important cult places were built in this area.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tHypothetical reconstruction of the elevation of the Tetrastyle Temple (C) (A. Davico)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tView of the Hall of the Altars (A) at the time of excavation\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n

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Four peperino altars were repositioned on the eastern side of the area, inside a rectangular enclosure (A); these were the object of special veneration.<\/p>\n

The Temple of Hercules (B), and the so-called Tetrastyle Temple (C), perhaps dedicated to Asclepius, a god of health, date to the period between the late 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0and early 1st<\/sup>\u00a0century BC.<\/p>\n

The third temple, known as the Temple of the Round Altar (D), stands in the south-west corner of the area and presents two construction phases dating to the 1st<\/sup>\u00a0century BC and the 1st<\/sup>\u00a0century AD respectively.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tInscriptions with the signatures of Greek artists found in the Temple of the Round Altar (D)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tView of the altar of the Temple of the Round Altar (D) and of the surrounding structures\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Republican Sacred Area lays outside the walls of the\u00a0castrum, near an ancient road linking Ostia to the mouth of the Tiber, the same route followed by the later Via della Foce. From the 3rd\u00a0century BC onwards, some of Ostia\u2019s most important cult places were built in this area.   Four peperino altars were repositioned…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6512,"menu_order":21,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-albero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6611","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6612,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6611\/revisions\/6612"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}