La Pianta marmorea di Roma antica : forma urbis Romae

Since 1960, this has been the fundamental reference work on the Severan Marble Plan of Rome. It marked the first photographic presentation of all the known fragments and offered the most comprehensive and scientific review to date of the fragments and the Plan itself. Only 400 copies were printed, however, so this work is difficult to find outside specialized research libraries. Volume one includes a bibliography (Carettoni), a history of the fragments (Colini), a list of fragments reproduced in Renaissance drawings (Carettoni), detailed study and decriptions of identified, non-identified, and lost fragments, a list of inscriptions (Colini), a thorough study of the aula, the wall, and the marble slabs (Cozza), a technical analysis of the Plan (Gatti), a discussion of its date, scope, and precedents (Gatti), and a reconstruction (Gatti). The first volume also includes helpful concordances that relate the fragments to the numbering systems of earlier publications, as well as indices that organize the fragments by number, thickness, epigraphy, building typology, and topography.
Volume two reproduces the Renaissance drawings (pls. 1-14) but is mostly taken up by black and white photographs of the 712 incised fragments known to the authors, in three groups: complexes and monuments with known locations (pls. 15-32), complexes and monuments with unknown locations (pls. 33-34), and fragments with non-identified topography (pls. 35-60). Plate 61 (a-b) is Cozza's detailed drawing of the wall of the aula on which the Plan hung. Finally, plate 62 (a-b) is Gatti's schematic reconstruction of the marble slabs in situ with drawings of the identified fragments (both existing and known only from Renaissance drawings) superimposed onto the wall.

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