Casa Romuli

Villanovan culture cinerary hut-urn, showing the likely shape of Romulus' hut in Rome, a simple mud-and-straw shelter
Iron Age hut foundations on the Palatine Hill considered to be the Casa Romuli

The Casa Romuli ("Hut of Romulus"), also known as the tugurium Romuli, was the reputed dwelling place of the legendary founder and first king of Rome, Romulus (traditional dates 771–717 BC).[1] It was situated on the south-western corner of the Palatine hill, where it slopes down towards the Circus Maximus, near the so-called "Steps of Cacus".[2] It was a traditional single-roomed peasants' hut of the Latins, with straw roof and wattle-and-daub walls, such as are reproduced in miniature in the distinctive funerary urns of the so-called Latial culture (ca. 1000 – ca. 600 BC).[3]

  1. ^ Famiano Nardini (1819). Roma antica. pp. 156–.
  2. ^ Dionysius I.79
    – Plutarch Romulus 20
  3. ^ Cornell (1995) 51
    – Vitruvius II.1.5