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Vibia Galla
Aquinum
sacerdos divae Augustae
Priestess of the imperial cult at the Central Baths. Five languages. She knows only what the inscriptions say.
The land where Rome breathes, where the Etruscans fall silent in painting, where the imperial villas dreamt the whole Mediterranean.
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7th c. BC — 5th c. AD
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Lazio is not only Rome. It is Aquinum on the river Liri, where Vibia Galla officiated the cult of the deified Livia. It is Tivoli, where Hadrian built a world in miniature. It is Cerveteri, where the Etruscans buried their dead the way one buries a city. It is Ostia, where ships returned laden with grain from Africa and the bakers lit their ovens before dawn.
Six places. Six voices, some already alive, others on their way. All anchored to the stones that have kept them — the inscriptions, the excavations, the archives of civic museums and superintendencies.
◆ Every voice speaks only of what the sources document. When it doesn't know, it says so.
Aquinum
sacerdos divae Augustae
Priestess of the imperial cult at the Central Baths. Five languages. She knows only what the inscriptions say.
Voice coming
«the rebel city that began the Social War»
Latin colony founded in 328 BC, destroyed in 125 BC for its uprising over citizenship. Sanctuary of Aesculapius, republican baths. A natural counterpart to Aquinum in the story of the Liri valley.
Vibia Sabina · in development
«the architectural dream of an emperor»
Hadrian's personal residence, a fusion of Greek, Egyptian and Roman architecture. The voice will be Vibia Sabina, his wife — the Augusta who lived inside the dream. UNESCO.
Voice coming
«a city of the dead built like a city of the living»
Etruscan necropolis from the 9th to the 3rd century BC. UNESCO. A culture we know above all from its tombs — a voice for those who have long been silent.
Voice coming
«the painted tombs of the Etruscans — the banquet and the leopard»
Etruscan necropolis from the 7th to the 2nd century BC. UNESCO. The painted tombs are the richest testimony of Etruscan life — banquets, dances, animals. The voice will speak from one specific tomb.
Scribonia Attice · in development
«the port of Rome, its thousand tongues»
The working port of Rome — insulae, taverns, bakeries, mithraea. The voice will be Scribonia Attice, midwife, buried at Isola Sacra with an inscription naming her obstetrix.
Aquinum and Fregellae are not two separate sites. They are two chapters of the same story — the Roman colonisation of southern Lazio, the revolt that began the Social War, the citizenship won with blood before it became a right. Cibel is building voices that speak to one another along the Liri valley — Vibia Galla at Aquinum, and soon a voice at Fregellae telling the same land from the side of the defeated.
A regional platform, not a collection of isolated sites.
Cibel collaborates with civic museums, superintendencies and archaeological parks across Lazio. Already active at Aquinum. We are looking for partners for Fregellae, Villa Adriana, Cerveteri, Tarquinia and Ostia.