The Tabularium is an ancient monument which is located on Capitol Hill, in the center of Rome. Its characteristic arched facade dominates the Roman Forum. It finally settled the area of 'Asylum, depression more or less the present Piazza del Campidoglio was riding in the hills of' Arx (the Aracoeli) and Capitolium (where once stood the Temple of Jupiter, more or less in the back of the Palace of the Conservatives). According to the common opinion, the building was intended to accommodate the public archives of the State: public acts the most important ancient Rome, by the decrees of the Senate to peace treaties. These records were engraven on tables of bronze (hence the name tabularium for any archives of the Roman world). The name of the building capitol, however, comes from an inscription, preserved building in the Renaissance, mentioning a file: it could be one or more spaces, not necessarily of an alleged'state store' which occupied the whole . Among other things, the archives of the state were scattered in various buildings in the city.
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