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Rome: Forma Urbis Roma, plan of Porticos of Octavia & Phillipus
Rome: Forma Urbis Roma, plan of the Porticos of Octavia and Philippus (Vatican Mus.)
These 16th century drawings from the Vatican Library are copies of fragments of the Forma Urbis Roma,
a detailed city map made on marble in about AD 200, of which today only
fragments survive. This portion of the Forma Urbis shows the
plan of the Porticos of Octavia and Phillipus, built by Augustus in AD
10.
Two
temples are shown in the Portico of Octavia, the Temple of Jupiter
(Aedis Iovis) and the Temple of Juno (Aedis Iunoni). A third temple of
the Muse of Hercules (Aedis Herculis Musai) adjoins in the Portico of
Phillipus to the west (at bottom, in this view).
When drawn in ca.1561, the portico and temples were on a single Forma Urbis
fragment. Later this was broken up, with 5 extant fragments seen at
right. While the portico still exists, the temples are known only from
the drawing.
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