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Tabula Peutingeriana (section of a modern facsimile), top to bottom: Dalmatian coast, Adriatic Sea, southern Italy, Sicily, African Mediterranean coast. Tabula Peutingeriana (Latin for 'The Peutinger Map'), also referred to as Peutinger's Tabula, [1] Peutinger tables [2] or Peutinger Table, is an illustrated itinerarium (ancient Roman road map) showing the layout of the cursus publicus, the ...
The wall where the map was originally mounted. The Forma Urbis Romae or Severan Marble Plan is a massive marble map of ancient Rome, created under the emperor Septimius Severus between AD 203 and 211. Matteo Cadario gives specific years of 205–208, noting that the map was based on property records. [1]
Maps of Ancient Rome (the civilization) including the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. Subcategories. This category has only the following ...
Platner's map of Rome for The Topography and Monuments of Ancient Rome (1911). The topography of ancient Rome is the description of the built environment of the city of ancient Rome. It is a multidisciplinary field of study that draws on archaeology, epigraphy, cartography and philology.
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Map of ancient Rome with the regions. In 7 BC, Augustus divided the city of Rome into 14 administrative regions (Latin regiones, sing. regio). These replaced the four regiones —or "quarters"—traditionally attributed to Servius Tullius, sixth king of Rome. They were further divided into official neighborhoods . [1]
Forma Urbis Romae – Marble map of ancient Rome (c.205-208) Geographic information system – System to capture, manage, and present geographic data; Great Trigonometrical Survey – 19th-century survey to measure the Indian subcontinent (India) Here be dragons – Phrase used on maps to indicate uncharted areas
Map of Rome in the time of the Roman Republic. The pomerium at that time is marked in pink; the Capitoline and Aventine are extra pomerium , 'beyond the wall', with their boundaries in yellow. The pomerium or pomoerium was a religious boundary around the city of Rome and cities controlled by Rome.