Networks and Workshops Construction of temples at the dawn of the Roman Republic

Recent research into specific find contexts in Rome and its satellite cities provides the opportunity to trace connections between urban sanctuaries and workshops, and thus to shed light on the organization process of construction and decoration of temples in Central Italy. Especially at the transition from the Regal to the Republican period, when temple building changed rapidly and became both widespread and monumental, networks emerge. Architecture and decoration converged into two very different systems employed at a network of sites in and around Rome, aligned with the end of the so-called First Phase and the rise of the Second Phase in decorative roof systems. New research in the field of technology, such as petrographic analyses and advanced 3D modelling applied as in experimental archaeology, in combination with traditional methods, such as stylistic analysis, iconographic interpretation and the study of ancient building techniques, have shown a pattern of affinities between the workshops responsible for the construction of the temples and their terracotta roofs.