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It was not a wall, but rather a legally and religiously defined one marked by white stones called cippi, and it did not encompass the entire metropolitan area (the Palatine Hill was within the pomerium, but the Capitoline and Aventine Hills were not). The Curia Hostilia and the well of the Comitia in the Forum Romanum, two extremely important locations in the government of the city-stateA city-state is a region controlled exclusively by a city. City-states were common in the ancient period. A city state was sovereign, although many cities were joined in formal or informal leagues under a high king. Many historical empires or leagues were and its empire, were located within the pomerium. The temple of BellonaThe term Bellona refers, among other things, to: # Roman counterpart of Greek goddess Enyo. Asteroid 28 Bellona. Bellona Foundation, a Norwegian Environmental organization. was beyond the pomerium.

Religious and political constraints forbade any anointed sovereign from entering the pomerium. As a result, visits of state were somewhat awkward; CleopatraCleopatra VII Philopator ( December, 70 BC or January, 69 BC August 12?, 30 BC) was queen of ancient Egypt. She was the last member of the Macedonian Ptolemaic dynasty to rule Egypt. Her father was Ptolemy XII Auletes, and her mother was probably Auletes', for example, never actually entered the city of Rome when she came to visit Julius CaesarAlternative meanings: Julius Caesar (disambiguation). Gaius Julius Caesar ( Latin: C·IVLIVS·C·F·C·N·CAESAR) ( July 13, 100 BC March 15, 44 BC) was a Roman military and political leader whose conquest of Gallia Comata extended the Roman world all the way t.

Furthermore, promagistrates and generals were forbidden from passing beyond it, and resigned their imperiumImperium was a concept of legal authority in ancient Rome. A man owning imperium had absolute authority within the scope of his magistracy or promagistracy (see below), but could be vetoed or overruled by a magistrate or promagistrate owning a higher degr immediately upon crossing it. As a result, a general waiting to celebrate a triumph was obligated to wait outside the pomerium until his triumph. The Comitia Centuriata, one of the Roman assembliesThe Roman Republic Res Publica Romana vested formal governmental powers in four separate assemblies — the 'Comitia Curiata", the Comitia Centuriata the Comitia Tributa and the Concilium Plebis''. Unlike modern chambers, these bodies combined legislative,, was obligated to meet on the Campus Martius outside the pomerium. Pompey's Theater, where Julius Caesar was murdered, was also outside the pomerium and included a Senate chamber where the Senate could meet with the attendance individual senators who were forbidden to cross the pomerium and thus would not have been able to meet in the Curia Hostilia.