Largo Argentina in a triumph of bright reds, greens and blues, as the cladding slabs of its sacred area tell us today.
The dozens of feet, hands, family portraits donated to Minerva Medica on the Esquiline.
And then that Capitoline Triad with Jupiter, Juno and Minerva reconstructed thanks to relief technologies, digital sculpture and 3D printing, which certainly comes from an imposing frontal space hitherto unknown.
Not to mention the mastery of the black and white checkerboard or lozenge mosaics, the very first example of the floors of the Roman Domus.
It is the journey back in time of La Roma della Repubblica.
The story of archaeology,
A journey along about 1800 finds, for the most part never exhibited to the public, arriving above all from the Antiquarium coffers, now restored and exhibited for the first time.
"An exhibition that required a significant investment from Rome, both in terms of resources and energy - says the councilor for culture Miguel Gotor - It is the second stage of a journey that wants to tell the growth of the city and its political vicissitudes- social" using exhibits "from the municipal property collections kept in the warehouses and museums of the Superintendence".
"Many - adds Claudio Parisi Presicce who oversees the project together with Isabella Damiani - as well as never having been exhibited are also little studied.
Our journey began when we began to dig into the crates of objects that had wandered around the city for a long time in search of a location, until we arrived at the Museum of Roman Civilization.
They are all finds from excavations in Rome, some of which emerged at the end of the 19th century, others in the reorganization of the city in the 1920s and 1930s".
The exhibition is divided into three sections: sanctuaries and palaces, productions and commerce, manifestations of identity, prestige and social ascent, in a setting that is striking for the multiplicity of examples.
"We thought - explains Damiani - of showing the quantity, to give an idea of the wealth of finds that we find during the excavations".
Among others, the marble urn from the Esquiline, the small bronze goat from via Magenta and the remains of the fresco from the Arieti Tomb stand out.
Instead, a selection of portraits from the late Republican period come from the Capitoline Hill.
A small collection from which "valuable information is obtained, for example, on the devotion of the State and the private one - continues Presicce - but also on the management of Rome's water before the construction of the aqueducts or on the transition to
As for the future ticket to visit the Pantheon, he adds, "it will exclude Roman citizens".
But not only.
The hope, relaunches Presicce is that "all this work" for the exhibitions on archaeological Rome "may represent the basis for that museum that is missing and which is the Museum of the city, a place to tell all the phases of this unique city in the world ".
As for the future ticket to visit the Pantheon, he adds, "it will exclude Roman citizens".
But not only.
The hope, relaunches Presicce is that "all this work" for the exhibitions on archaeological Rome "may represent the basis for that museum that is missing and which is the Museum of the city, a place to tell all the phases of this unique city in the world ".