Horseracing track (Philox., CGL 2.201) located in the West of Campus Martius. The term ‘trigarium’ is generally interpreted as the racing track for chariots drawn by three horses (trigae), an event held only in Archaic times (Dion. Hal., Ant. Rom. 7.73.2). Nonetheless, there could have been a revival of these races in the Imperial period (Coarelli, LTUR 89). The Trigarium served as the temporary racetrack (circus temporalis) of the ludi Saeculares (Pighi 1965, 118, 167) to host horse races (Coarelli 1977, 839); it not only shared a topographical contiguity with the Tarentum but also a typological association (Zos. 2.2.3). Perhaps other ceremonies of archaic character and involving horse races, such as the Equirria and the October equus, were held in the Trigarium (Coarelli LTUR 89).
Trigarium
Relevant museums
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Ara Pacis Museum
Ara Pacis Museum
Italy, Rome -
Rome, Vatican Museums
Rome, Vatican Museums
VA, Vatican City -
Rome, Museo nazionale della civiltà romana
Rome, Museo nazionale della civiltà romana - Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography.
Italy, Rome -
Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Collection of ancient manuscripts, including papyri, ostraca, and the Peutinger Map
Austria, Vienna -
Paris, Louvre
Paris, Louvre
France, Paris -
Prefectural Museum of Antiquities (Rouen)
Prefectural Museum of Antiquities (Rouen)
France, Rouen
Nearby sites
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Via Triumphalis
Via Triumphalis
Italy, Vatican City -
inscription dans le mur (avec digamma inversum)
Inscription du pomérium (Claude) digamma inversum
Italy, Vatican City -
Navalia
The Navalia was a military port of Ancient Rome which may also have included a naval dockyard. It is thought to have been sited on the left bank of the river Tiber.
Italy, Vatican City -
Sepulcrum: M. Agrippa
Tomb M. Vipsanius Agrippa built for himself in the *Campus Martius before his ashes were interred in the *Mausoleum of Augustus
Italy, Vatican City