The 'Forum Suarium' was the pork
''forum venalium'' of early Ancient
Rome during the
empire, mentioned first in two inscriptions of about
200 AD. This market was near the barracks of the cohortes urbanae in the northern part of the
campus Martius, probably close to the present ''Via di Propaganda'', and its administration was in the hands of the
prefect or of one of his officers.