The pomerium or pomoerium was a religious boundary around the city of Rome and cities controlled by Rome. In legal terms, Rome existed only within its...

Praetor – 6 lictors (2 lictors within the pomerium) Consul – 12 lictors each Dictator – 24 lictors outside the pomerium and 12 inside; starting from the dictatorship...

outside the pomerium, with axes that symbolized the power to carry out capital punishment. Dictatorial lictors had axes even within the pomerium. They followed...

storm cloud descended upon the center of the open field outside the city's pomerium in order to lift the elderly king to the afterlife. This land, "between...

province governors) lost their proconsular "imperium" when they crossed the Pomerium—the sacred boundary of Rome—and entered the city. In these situations,...

Lateran Palace and enclosed this area with walls. He planted an orchard (pomerium), a lawn (pratellum), and a garden (viridarium). The politics of Vatican...

awarded by the Senate. Before a commander could enter the city limits (pomerium) for his triumph, he had to lay aside arms formally and ritually, that...

electoral activities. Augustus shifted the focus of Mars' cult to within the pomerium (Rome's ritual boundary), and built a temple to Mars Ultor as a key religious...

Claudian pomerium marker, where written words ampliavit and terminavit use turned digamma (highlighted in red)...

been set, made it impossible for Caesar to stand unless he crossed the pomerium and gave up the right to his triumph. Caesar petitioned the Senate to stand...