Forum Piscarium

The Forum Piscarium (Italian: Foro Piscario) was the fish market of ancient Rome (a forum venalium), north of the Roman Forum, between the Sacra Via and the Argiletum. It was burned in 210 BC and rebuilt the next year. In 179 BC it was incorporated in the general Macellum, built by Marcus Fulvius Nobilior in the same region.[1]

Forum Piscarium, fish market of ancient Rome

This forum is called piscatorium in Livy, and piscarium in Varro and Plautus (Curc. 474).

References
  1. Annalisa Marzano (1 August 2013). Harvesting the Sea: The Exploitation of Marine Resources in the Roman Mediterranean. Oxford University Press. pp. 270–. ISBN 978-0-19-967562-3.

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