page_title: Flavian Palace
section_title: Layout
hierarchical_section_title: Flavian Palace / Layout
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Pianta della Domus Flavia di Domiziano (Roma - Palatino; 81-92 AD); architetto Rabirio.
context_page_description: The Flavian Palace, normally known as the Domus Flavia, is part of the vast Palace of Domitian on the Palatine Hill in Rome. It was completed in 92 AD by Emperor Titus Flavius Domitianus, and attributed to his master architect, Rabirius.
  The term Domus Flavia is a modern name for the northwestern section of the Palace where the bulk of the large "public" rooms for official business, entertaining and ceremony are concentrated. Domitian was the last of the Flavian dynasty, but the palace continued to be used by emperors with small modifications until the end of the empire.
  It is connected to the domestic wing to the southeast, the Domus Augustana, a name which in antiquity may have applied to the whole of the palace.
context_section_description: The Domus Flavia is built mainly around a large peristyle courtyard which was surrounded by many elaborate rooms of impressive height, of which only a few 3 m thick walls remain of 16 m height, half the original. It was built upon Nero's earlier palace and followed some of its layout, as excavations have shown. On the northeastern side, the huge Aula Regia (royal hall) was the central and largest room, flanked by smaller reception rooms, the so-called Basilica and Lararium.
  The northern exterior of these three rooms had a portico that continued from the west side and which formed the main entrance to the palace facing those coming up on the road from the forum.
caption: Plan of the Domus Flavia
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