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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Practical Information
Mercati Traianei, Via IV Novembre
94. Map 5 B4. Tel 06-0608.
Open 9:30am–7:30pm daily;
(last adm: 1 hour before
closing). Closed Jan 1, Dec 25.
= 7
Transportation
@ 64, 70, 170, and many routes
to Piazza Venezia.
The Markets in the 16th Century
This fanciful fresco depicts a gladiatorial combat taking place
in front of the partly buried remains of Trajan’s Markets.

Upper Corridor
Stores on this upper level
are thought to have sold
wine and oil, since a
number of storage jars were
discovered here.
Market Shopping
Stores opened early, and closed
about noon. The best ones were
decorated with mosaics of the
goods they sold. Almost all the
shopping was done by men,
though women visited the
dressmaker and cobbler. The
tradesmen were almost all
male. In employment records
for the period AD 117–193,
the only female store-
keepers mentioned are
three wool-sellers, two
jewelers, a green-
grocer, and
a fishwife.
Fish mosaic

1924 Many medieval
AD 100–112 472 Invasion by Ricimer 1200s Torre houses demolished
Building of the Suevian. Some of delle Milizie 1572 Convent of
Trajan’s his Germanic troops built on top of Santa Caterina da 1911–14
Markets stationed here the markets Siena built over Convent
part of markets demolished
AD 0 AD 390 780 1170 1560
AD 117 Death 552 Byzantine takeover 1828 First tentative
of Trajan 1300s Annibaldi and excavations, but value of
of Rome. Markets
AD 98 Trajan occupied and fortified Caetani families vie for site not recognized
succeeds Nerva by the army control of the area 1930–33 Markets
as emperor finally excavated

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