<p>Collective sanctuary for the four <i>curiae</i> (traditional divisions of the Roman people) which could not, for religious reasons, be shifted to the *Curiae Novae in the Archaic period (Festus 180-82: <i>evocare</i>; cf. Varro, Ling. 5.155: <i>curiae veteres</i>; Torelli, Richardson). Tradition holds that Romulus founded the structure for the 30 <i>curiae</i> in the city (Dion. Hal., <i>Ant. Rom</i>. 2.21-23, 47.4; Festus, <i>loc. cit.</i>), but Rome’s expanding population soon made the building too small (thus the foundation of the Curiae Novae: Torelli 336). Tacitus locates the Curiae Veteres at the NE corner of the Romulean <i>pomerium</i> (<i>Ann</i>. 12.24). Recently, the sanctuary has been associated (Torelli; with some hesitancy, Panella 70-81) with a small but luxurious Claudian building found with a votive deposit (of Archaic and late-Republican material) during excavations on the NE angle of the *Palatine (for the remains, Panella 27-62). With some caution, the site is marked on our map.</p> <p><i>Addendum</i></p> <p>A new placement of the Curiae Veteres further S than so far assumed — about halfway down the *Via di S. Gregorio, at the E foot of the Palatine — has plausibly been proposed based on a revised reading and arrangement of the Severan Marble Plan fragments nos. 452 a-d: C. Cecamore, “Le Curiae Veteres sulla Forma Urbis Marmorea,” <i>RömMitt</i> 109 (2002) 43-58.</p>