#tabularium

a recovered poem from 1998 written after watching Kama Sutra and falling in love with impossible worlds.

I want to go back To a magical place, Where princes are gods And women wear veils.

I saw it in dreams, And dreams I will share With girls that believe In these fairy tales.

The wizards would say That skies aren't blue That flowers have life And the mountains too!

The air smells like saffron And winds speak to you In one hundred languages, The same as the moon!

Streets are so wide, As if they never end And people walk by With a smile on their face.

Their skin is like gold, Their hair like the night What place could it be? I guess paradise!

Oceans are deep, What worlds they embrace! The sailors go far, And some don't return.

I've heard that the mermaids Have them in chains, Made of the seaweed And mother of pearl.

At sunset the sky, The one that's not blue, Turns into a peacock With strange purple moons.

The sounds of the night You never have heard, As you listen closer They whisper your name

Roma.

Di tutto.

Di più.

The interior and exteriors of my redo of the Tabularium, a building that loomed over the Roman forum at the foot of the Capitoline Hill. The building is a government structure believed by most historians and archeologists to be the central archives of the Roman Republic and the later Roman Empire.

For authenticity’s sake, I considered making the structure itself a bit more government office-y in its interiors, so the look of the offices might instead be preserved instead for the meeting rooms of officials.The red painted panels strike me more as the kind of interiors that fit patrician houses more than the desks of government clerks. What do you think?

Latium so far. The Forum is coming along nicely ever since I put in the lighting mod and painted the ground like a Roman road. I’m not sure how many of the real forum’s buildings I’ll be putting in, or if I’m adding miniaturized versions of the other fora under Augustus after.

The buildings so far include the Temple of Castor and Pollux, the Curia Julia, the Temple of Saturn, the Temple of Concordia, the Tabularium, the Rostrum (just named “Forum Romanum” here and will include the Lacus Curtius), and the Basilica Julia. Buildings that will be added include the Temple of Vesta and the Basilica Paulli. I also feel like packing the buildings closer together for that dense urban look and so I can keep the city itself compact while the rest of the map is countryside.

New buildings in Latium (and my first attempt at terrain shaping). The Tabularium is built on a slope in real life, so I did the same (after a false start). I’m still not 100% happy with the outcome of the Capitoline Hill at the moment, but it’s a start.