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    The Forma Urbis Romae was a massive marble map of ancient Rome commissioned under Emperor Septimius Severus between 203-211 AD. Originally over 13 meters high and 18 meters wide, it contained detailed floor plans of temples, baths, and buildings carved into 150 marble slabs. While most was destroyed over centuries, excavations in 1562 uncovered over 1,000 fragments, comprising about 10% of the original map. These fragments are now housed in the Capitoline Museums.

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    The Forma Urbis Romae was a massive marble map of ancient Rome commissioned under Emperor Septimius Severus between 203-211 AD. Originally over 13 meters high and 18 meters wide, it contained detailed floor plans of temples, baths, and buildings carved into 150 marble slabs. While most was destroyed over centuries, excavations in 1562 uncovered over 1,000 fragments, comprising about 10% of the original map. These fragments are now housed in the Capitoline Museums.

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    The Forma Urbis Romae was a massive marble map of ancient Rome commissioned under Emperor Septimius Severus between 203-211 AD. Originally over 13 meters high and 18 meters wide, it contained detailed floor plans of temples, baths, and buildings carved into 150 marble slabs. While most was destroyed over centuries, excavations in 1562 uncovered over 1,000 fragments, comprising about 10% of the original map. These fragments are now housed in the Capitoline Museums.

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    The Forma Urbis Romae

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    The Forma Urbis Romae was a massive marble map of ancient Rome commissioned under Emperor Septimius Severus between 203-211 AD. Originally over 13 meters high and 18 meters wide, it contained detailed floor plans of temples, baths, and buildings carved into 150 marble slabs. While most was destroyed over centuries, excavations in 1562 uncovered over 1,000 fragments, comprising about 10% of the original map. These fragments are now housed in the Capitoline Museums.

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    The Forma Urbis Romae or Severan Marble Plan is a massive marble map of ancient Rome, created under the

    emperor Septimius Severus between 203 and 211. It originally measured 18 m (60 ft) wide by 13 m (45 ft) high and was carved into 150 marble slabs mounted on an interior wall of the Temple of Peace. Created at a scale of approximately 1 to 240, the map was detailed enough to show the floor plans of nearly every temple, bath, and insula in the central Roman city. The boundaries of the plan were decided based on the available space on the marble, instead of by geographical or political borders as modern maps usually are. The Plan was gradually destroyed during the Middle Ages, with the marble stones being used as building materials or for making lime. In 1562, the young antiquarian sculptor Giovanni Antonio Dosio excavated fragments of the Forma Urbis from a site near the Church of SS. Cosma e Damiano, under the direction of the humanist condottiere Torquato Conti, who had purchased excavation rights from the canons of the church. Conti made a gift of the recovered fragments to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, who entrusted them to his librarian Onofrio Panvinio and his antiquarian Fulvio Orsini. Little interest seems to have been elicited by the marble shards.[1] In all about 10% of the original surface area of the plan has since been recovered, in the form of over one thousand marble fragments, which are kept in the Palazzo dei Conservatori of the Capitoline Museums.

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