Pomerium

(noun)

The sacred boundary around a city that marked the city's urban, legal, and religious limits. No armies were allowed within this boundary.

Related Terms

  • cuirass
  • Lictor
  • bucrania
  • meander
  • register

Examples of Pomerium in the following topics:

  • Imperial Sculpture in the Early Roman Empire

    • The marble altar was erected just outside the boundary of the Pomerium to the north of the city along the Via Flaminia on the Campus Martius.
  • Victory Columns under the Nervan-Antonines

    • He is notably the first emperor to be buried inside the pomerium.
  • The Seven Kings

    • He used the treasure from his campaigns to build the first pomerium -- walls that fully encircled the Seven Hills of Rome.
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