Built in 78 BC and restored by Claudius in 46 AD, the Tabularium or record office was the repository for official State archives, its arcade of eleven large arches providing a dramatic terminus for the western end of the Forum.
Here, one can see the long upper gallery, with the arched windows looking out over the Forum. Below is the Tabularium as drawn by Constant Moyaux in the mid-ninteenth century (two of the arches had not yet been uncovered). The tower was added c.1300 and the upper story demolished by Michelangelo, who built the Palazzo del Senatore in its place.
