Talk:Comitium

Help make the illustrations better
Please indicate what is wrong with the images and they can and will be altered in as timely a fasion as possible.

"Illustrate by consensus" is an experiament.--Amadscientist (talk) 11:29, 4 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I am removing these images and posting them at the project discussion to see if I can get contributions to more accurately illustrate this subject.--Amadscientist (talk) 05:49, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Re-write, re-rated and Infobox/subject hub
I have identified this article as having a rating that is too low. The subject should have a top importance and should be a subject hub for all details that link to this page. The comitium was the original forum when the Forum Romano was covered by a royal residence (the original Regia), it is here where Republican government was born and here that many legends of the founding of the city center around.

It's political importance is pretty high as the location for both the Rostra and the Curia and other political assemblies. It was a place of high honor where the first monuments of the Republic were displayed and where the Ambassadors of foreign lands would be greeted.--Amadscientist (talk) 21:10, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * To high reassesed with more nuetral eye on individual project importance.--Amadscientist (talk) 02:19, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Additional monuments
Many more monuments written about...the three Sybil's, the statues of Pythagoras and Alcibiades and the small statues of the ambassadors that were assassinated.--69.62.180.178 (talk) 06:06, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Main Image
I really need to change the main image as it is not the actual comitium space, but the roman Forum and the Ipmerial commitium after the time of Caesar. Anyone know where I can locate an image?--Amadscientist (talk) 07:47, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The current drawing appears to be original research, especially the placement of the "Ancient Comitium" and the "Curia Cornelia". It's sources need documentation to avoid violation of WP:OR. WCCasey (talk) 19:13, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Uhm....original research is actually acceptable in images, but this and all its information is based on a similar diagram I found in a public domain book source.--Mark Miller (talk) 03:58, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Hmmmm. Now I think I may be wrong here. --Mark Miller (talk) 04:40, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Some further issues regarding "understandability"
The following information appeared in the Lapis Niger article, and makes more sense, practically, than any architectural or structural description currently appearing here, and so I suggest it be incorporated here: "In the American Journal of Archaeology, second series, volume 4 1900, a letter from Samuel Ball Platner was published dated July 1, 1899. In the letter he stated:"In front of the Arch of Severus begins the line along which the main work of the past months has been done. The whole front wall of San Adriano, the Curia of Diocletian, and the Comitium are now in sight. The Comitium is paved with blocks of travertine and extends to and around the lapis niger, which, although on the same level, is protected on at least two sides by a sort of curb. This pavement of the Comitium extends out to a point directly opposite the middle of the Arch of Severus, and ends just beyond the lapis niger with a curved front wall, which is itself built over an older tufa pavement. Further back it also rests upon older structures. Part of the Comitium had evidently been built over at a late period in something the same way as the Basilica Aemilia.""

In addition, the following section: in this article defies the general structure, which on its face appears to follow a chronological description, shifting abruptly, mid-stride, to turn in this architectural/structural direction. This should either go as a subsection of some other chronological section, or it should be renamed/edited to fit into the general flow/structure of the article.
 * Structures within the comitium, see

Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 03:16, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
 * While the snippet is clearly in the public domain, we try hard to avoid direct copying. Perhaps we could add it as a quote from Platner himself?--Mark Miller (talk) 03:30, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Platner's letter was only about work-in-progress. It shouldn't be used as an authoritative statement when his published final works are available.Vicedomino (talk) 15:12, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Archaeology
The discussion is ongoing and fierce. It is summarized, for example, in Jeffrey Alan Becker, The Building Blocks of Empire: Civic Architecture, Central Italy, and the Roman Middle Republic (a dissertation U North Carolina Chapel Hill 2007), pp. 70-73,  which is available for reading at Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=5kMjzj8WJhgC&pg=PA70&dq=comitium&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjWjZ-ug8jLAhWGKGMKHdGgDJU4ChDoAQgzMAQ#v=onepage&q=comitium&f=false

Even if it cannot be used directly, it can still inform the writers of this article of where the discussion is--which is NOT where they think it is.

Also, some of the bibliography of Einar Gjerstad should be included, especially Early Rome Vol. I: Stratigraphical researches in the Forum Romanum and along the Sacra Via (1953); and Legends and Facts of Early Roman History (1962). Vicedomino (talk) 15:58, 17 March 2016 (UTC)