Sant'Omobono Area

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The Sant'Omobono Area (Italian: Area di Sant'Omobono) is an archaeological site in Rome next to the church of Sant'Omobono, at the junction of via L. Petroselli and the Vico Jugario at the foot of the Campidoglio. It was discovered in 1937 and contains much important evidence for archaic and republican Rome. It contains altars and the sites of the temple of Fortuna and the temple of Mater Matuta. An earlier archaic-period temple underlies these two, dating itself to the early 6th century BCE, making it the oldest known temple remains in Rome.{{Cite web|url=http://www.archaeology.org/issues/132-1405/trenches/1982-reexcavation-rome-earliest-temple|title=A Brief Glimpse into Early Rome - Archaeology Magazine}}

The temples and their sanctuaries lie between the Forum Holitorium and the Forum Boarium.{{cite book|author=Ross R. Holloway|title=The Archaeology of Early Rome and Latium|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W6qOAwAAQBAJ&pg=PR11|date=12 May 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-76160-0|pages=11–}} {{As of|2012}}, the archaeological site is under re-investigation by a joint team from the Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali of the Comune di Roma, the Università della Calabria, and the University of Michigan.{{cite journal | last1 = Terrenato | first1 = N. |display-authors=etal | year = 2012 | title = The S. Omobono Sanctuary in Rome: Assessing eighty years of fieldwork and exploring perspectives for the future | doi = 10.11141/ia.31.1 | doi-access= | journal = Internet Archaeology | volume = 31 }}

The site of Sant'Omobono is crucial for understanding the related processes of monumentalization, urbanization, and state formation in Rome in the late Archaic period.