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Romulus Pointing Out the Spot Where Rome Should Be Built   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Initial sketch by Filippo Pistrucci

Published by A. Ducôte
Title
Romulus Pointing Out the Spot Where Rome Should Be Built
Description
English: A lithograph showing—with several errors—the sulcus primigenius ritual supposedly undertaken at the founding of the city of Rome, plowing the course of the city's initial walls around the Palatine Hill. Romulus stands right point with a sword, whereas he supposedly performed the ritual himself. (According to the British Museum. Roman sources mention Romulus's spear, which may account for the odd use of one by the plower, who invariably appears with a bullwhip in Roman coins showing the ritual.) The plower wears a tunic and shawl, rather than the Gabine-cinched toga used by the late Republic. The team consist of paired bulls or oxen, though the literary sources state a paired bull and cow should be used.
Latina: Urbe condita
Depicted people Representation of: Romulus
Date between 1830 and 1835
date QS:P571,+1830-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1830-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1835-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 239 millimetres (sheet)
Width: 333 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1891,1116.176
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1891-1116-176
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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