Flavian Palace - Layout

Layout

It contains several large rooms and suites of rooms; the main rooms are the Basilica, the Aula Regia, the Lararium, and the Triclinium. The Basilica is a group of three rooms and is the first part of the palace visible from the Clivus Palatinus, the road that connects the Roman Forum to the Palatine Hill. The next room is the Aula Regia, one of the biggest rooms in the palace. In the time of Domitian, the walls had a marble veneer, and there were Phrygian marble columns and an elaborately carved frieze. The third room, the Lararium, is the smallest and most poorly preserved room in the palace. Behind it was once a staircase providing access to the Domus Augustana. There were also a peristyle and suites of rooms to the west and east of these three rooms. The Triclinium is the last major room in the palace. Like the Aula Regia, it was large and extravagantly decorated, with Corinthian columns and a frieze. It opened on two courtyards with fountains to the north and south.