The forum was the public place par excellence, in which political, administrative and commercial activities took place. It presented itself as a free space, a square, square, or more often rectangular, with a column porch that ran along the perimeter, to allow people to stay indoors. In general, the forum was located in the area of the city closest to the main road axes, as happens here in Cuma, where it is connected to the Via Domitiana. This road, commissioned by the emperor Domitian, was built in 95 AD to allow further communication between Pozzuoli and Rome.
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