Rostra

[Bryan]

Does anyone know of any illustrations that would show what the Roman Rostra at the Comitium of the Roman forum looked like? Specifically during the Republican period.

[Gunthamund Hasding]

google it
http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Forum/...view/11436

http://www.romanreligion.org/content/wp-...rawing.gif

http://www.thefullwiki.org/Rostra

http://www.roma-antiqua.de/antikes_rom/f...num/rostra

for rostra vetera the republican one:
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Ga...*/2/5.html

[Gunthamund Hasding]

something more
this guys in Erlangen did an 1:200 scale reconstruction of the forum in Caesars time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGPdi8Sggzo
http://www.klassischearchaeologie.phil.u...forum.html

maybe you can write them if interested and have closer look at the rostra