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    The Lapis Niger (Latin, "Black Stone") is an ancient shrine in the Roman Forum. Together with the associated Vulcanal (a sanctuary to Vulcan) it constitutes...
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    to either the late Roman Kingdom or early Roman Republic include the Lapis Niger stone, the Duenos Inscription on a kernos vase, and the Garigliano bowl...
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  • (disambiguation) Blackstone (disambiguation) Blackstones (disambiguation) Lapis Niger (Latin: "Black Stone"), ancient shrine in Rome Yugen Blakrok, singer...
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    1950s. This includes the stele accorded the name of "The Black Rock" or Lapis Niger. The marble and cement covering is a mix of the original black marble...
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  • such as Atlanta or Harlem, to which African Americans are attracted Lapis Niger, an ancient shrine in the Roman Forum Black stone is another name for...
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    inscription in the Latin language is believed to be engraved on the Lapis Niger ("Black Stone") discovered in 1899 in the Roman Forum, dating from around...
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    concrete covering holding the "Black Stone" marble together over the Lapis Niger in Rome. Excavations in the Forum continue, with discoveries by archaeologists...
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    comparatively to the inscription of the cippus of the Forum, also known as Lapis Niger (CIL I 1). For the sake of convenience of interpretation, the text is...
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    as the location of an Etruscan mundus and altar.[citation needed] The Lapis Niger, a series of large black marble slabs, was placed over the altar (known...
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    locates the place of his death: the site was marked by the Lapis Niger: Festus writes "Niger lapis in Comitio locum funestum significat, ut ali, Romuli morti...
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    Sackler Museum at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Duenos inscription Lapis Niger Conway, Robert Seymour (1897). The Italic Dialects: edited with a grammar...
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    portal Cicero Curia Hostilia Curia Julia Curia of Pompey Graecostasis Lapis Niger Roman Forum List of monuments of the Roman Forum Rostra Bunson, Matthew...
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  • the world. Axis mundi Apollo Omphalos Benben stone Black Stone Kaaba Lapis Niger Lia Fáil Lingam Name of Mexico Stone of Scone Umbilicus urbis Romae Burkert...
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    began. Between 1899 and 1903 Boni and his collaborators discovered the Lapis Niger (the "Black Rock") as well as other artifacts while excavating the Comitium...
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    Curia Hostilia Curia Julia Gemonian stairs Graecostasis Lacus Curtius Lapis Niger Mamertine Prison Plutei of Trajan Puteal Scribonianum Regia Rostra Tabularium...
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    portal Cicero Curia Cornelia Curia Hostilia Curia of Pompey Graecostasis Lapis Niger Roman Forum List of monuments of the Roman Forum Rostra Theatre of Pompey...
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    that point. Column of Phocas, the last monument built within the Forum. Lapis Niger ("Black Stone"), a very ancient shrine which was obscure even to the...
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    been related to “profaners” mentioned in the inscription on the nearby Lapis Niger, making it a special location of punishment. The theme is related to...
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    from right to left; the oldest Latin inscription, which appears on the lapis niger of the seventh century BC, is in boustrophedon, but all other early Latin...
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    Hammurabi Gwanggaeto Stele King Ezana's Stela Kul Tigin Lemnos stela Lapis Niger Mesha Stele Naram-Sin Xi'an Stele Pig stele of Edessa Stone of Terpon...
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    1899–1905, established a site about 40 meters to the southwest of the Lapis Niger as the Vulcanal. This is just behind the Umbilicus Urbi and the (future)...
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  • in Hittite religion Omphalos, centre of the world in ancient Greece Lapis Niger ("black stone") a shrine in the Roman Forum Banalinga, naturally-formed...
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    The Forum inscription (Lapis Niger, "black stone"), one of the oldest known Latin inscriptions, from the 6th century BC. It is written boustrophedon,...
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    have been built either on the edge of the Rostra or on the sides of the Lapis Niger marking the underground "Tomb of Romulus". In spite of this uncertainty...
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    the Iron Age necropolis near the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, the Lapis Niger, the Regia, Galleria Cesaree, Horrea Agrippiana, the shrine of Vesta...
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  • Graecostasis and Rostra was an ancient shrine called the Vulcanal. It and the Lapis Niger represent the oldest parts of the Comitium space. The altar, originally...
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    died, his tomb was supposed to be located on the Comitium under the Lapis Niger. The occasion was commemorated ritually by the Nonae Caprotinae. Ovid...
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    by Professor Giacomo Boni, renowned archaeologist who discovered the Lapis niger, the Regia, the Lacus Curtius, the archaic necropolis at the temple of...
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    Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, München 1929. Die Foruminschrift beim Lapis niger In: Philologus Vol. 86 (1931), p. 460. Das historische Fragment des Papyrus...
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  • of ensuring peace in the land. Additionally, Gbagyi familiarity with the lapis lazuli stone has been taken in some quarters as indication of Egyptian origin...
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