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MAPPING AUGUSTAN ROME directed by Lothar Haselberger in collaboration with David Gilman Romano edited by Elisha Ann Duroser with contributions by D. Borbonus, E. A. Dumser, A. B. Gallia, O. Harman~ah, L. Haselberger, E. J. Kondratieff, C. F. Norefla, G. Petruccioli, D. G. Romano, N. L. Stapp, A. G. Thein, G. Varinlioglu, and others Computer map creation: A. B. Gallia, D. G. Romano, and N. L. Stapp Artistic map design: M. Davison Portsmouth, Rhode Island 2002 JOURNAL OF ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL MAPS (one sheet in front pocket, one sheet in back pocket) Mark Davison, Andrew B. Gallia, David Gilman Romano, and Nicholas L. Stapp, based on the work of all contributing authors Preface and Acknowledgements 7 Lothar Haselberger Mapping Augustan Rome: introduction to an experiment 9 Lothar Haselberger Urbs Roma: bibliography, models, and projects 27 Making the map David Gilman Romano, Nicholas L. Stapp, and Andrew B. Gallia Appendix A: Computer and software resources Appendix B:Map resources Dorian Borbonus, Elisha Ann Dumser, Andrew B. Gallia, Omiir Harman§ah, Lothar Haselberger, Eric J. Kondratieff, Thomas J. Morton, Carlos F. Norefia, Todd W. Parment, Guido Petruccioli, A. G. Thein, Kevin Tracy, & Gunder Varinlioglu Bibliographic abbreviations Elisha Ann Dumser Catalogue of entries Entries are arranged in alphabetical order, and each entry's index number is indicated at the end of the title line, if applicable. Items without an index number are either labeled on the map itself, such as area entries or regional roads, or cannot be visualized due to the item's overarching nature or its unknown location. Clearly post-antique Latin titles have been highlighted by quotation marks. A AEMILIANA(1) A vague toponym of Republican origin, associated these Trajanic warehouses even if they were not as with gens Aemilia, probably used to indicate two architecturally coherent as the Trajanic reconstruc- different districts. One is frequently located in the SE tion (Colini and Buzzetti 160, fig. 6). The Republican *Campus Martius (s.v. *Aemiliana [2])while the other and early-Imperial toponyms of the area seemed to Aemiliana is associated with a sand ship serving in have survived at least through the Severan period. the Aemiliana (NAVISHARENARIAQVAESERVITIN Rodriguez Almeida has recently challenged Coarel- AEMILIANIS:CIL XV 7150; Palmer 149-50). li's argument by associating the district with the For the latter Aemiliana, Palmer suggested that its *Porticus Aemilia (Emporium) (RodrIguez Almeida, quay should be located between the *Porta Flumen- LTUR 20), which is now placed right outside the tana and *Porta Trigemina, close to the E foot of the *Porta Trigemina, on the NW slopes of the Aventine *Pons Sublicius, and that it must have been extensively and by the Tiber. The long extra-mural zone along the used for the unloading of sand from ships for use as a Tiber from the *Pons Aemilius to the Porticus Aemilia construction material in Rome. Coarelli (147-54, fig. outside the Porta Trigemina could be tentatively 28) suggested that the more northern site of the accepted as the Aemiliana until some unambiguous Trajanic warehouses at the *Portus Tiberinus was the evidence against this assumption shows up in the site for earlier storehouses of Aemiliana, based upon archaeological record. the reconstruction of the Marble Plan (frags. 621 a-d, 623, 627), on which the surviving label for the area E. Rodriguez Almeida, s.v." Aemiliana," LTUR I, 19-20. ~an be reconstructed as AEMILI[ANA](RodriguezAl- Coarelli, Foro Boario (1988) 147-54. ') meida 1971, 112, fig. 4). Excavations at *Portus Tibe- A.M. Colini and C. Buzzetli, "Portus Tiberinus:' in S. Quilici Gigli rinus did not reveal any pre- or early-Imperial archi- (ed.), II Tevere e Ie altre vie d'aqua del Lazio antieo (Rome 1986) tecture since the Trajanic rebUilding completely obli- 157-97. terated the earlier levels (Colini; Colini and Buzzetti). A.M. CoHni, "II porto fluviale del Foro Boario a Roma:' MAAR 36 The urban layout of the complex, the late-Republican (1980) 43-53. and early-Imperial building activities in the area R.E.A. Palmer, "The Viei Lueeei in the Forllm Boarillm and some (known from the epigraphic evidence, d. Colini 191- Lucceii in Rome," Bill/Com 85 (1976-77) 135-61. 92) as well as the textual references (palmer 148-50) suggest that earlier structures must have preceded E. Rodriguez Almeida, "Forma Urbis Marmorea, nuove integrazioni," Bul/Com 82 (1971) 105-13. AEMILIANA(2) A district outside the city walls (Varro, Rust. 3.2.6; in this region during the Augustan period. The s.v. *Muri; ct. *Continentia) in the SE *Campus Aemiliana in the S Campus Martius should not be Martius. A report that Claudius installed himself in confused with the commercial districts along the the *Diribitorium to direct those fighting a fire in the *Tiber near the *Pons Aemilius, also described as Aemiliana seems to confirm this location (Suet., Claud. 'Aemiliana' (s.v. *Aemiliana [1)).Palmer's theory of at 18.1). The area may have taken its name from the least two 'AemiIiana' seems appropriate, since the presence of Aemilian-built structures, including the Aemilii were extremely active in monumentalizing *Porticus Aemilia (Campus Martius), which ran from several areas of the city during the 2nd and 1st c. B.c. the *Porta Fontinalis to the *Ara Martis, and the A.B.G., E. J.K. Temple to the *Lares Permarini (Castagnoli). Varro E. Rodriguez Almeida, s.v. "Aerniliana:' LTUR I, 19-20. (Rust. 3.2.6) alludes to the urban character of the R.E.A. Palmer, 'The Viei Llleeei in the Forllm Boarillm and some AemiIiana in 55-54 B.C., and the frequency of fires Lueceii in Rome," Bill/Com 85 (1976-77) 135-61, esp. 148-50. there during the Julio-Claudian period also suggests a Richardson 3. dense accumulation of buildings. It is reasonable to F. Castagnoli, II Campo Marzio nell'antiehita (Rome 1947) 93-193, conclude that there was considerable urban bUild-up esp. 138-39 n.2. Catalogue of entries AEQUIMELIUM map index 163 Open space on the SE slopes of the *Capitol,which (Livy 24.47.15), below the retaining walls of the functioned as a memorial against tyranny. It was an *Area Capitolina (Livy 38.28.3). Thus Pisani Sartorio area kept free from construction and its name commem- puts it N of the *ForumBovarium, Coarelli more speci- orated the levelling of the house of a would-be tyrant fically between the Area Sacra di S. Omobono and of the 5th c. B.C., Spurius Maelius (e.g., Varro, Ling. Piazza delIa Consolazione. It only occupied the for- 5.157: a<e>quata Meli domus, 'the levelled house of mer site of a single house, so it cannot have been large. Melius'). It was a place to buy sacrificial animals A.GT. (Cic., Div. 2.39), and it still existed in the Augustan G. Pisani Sartorio, s.v. "Aequimelium," LTUR I, 20-2l. period (Dion. Hal., Ant. Rom. 12.4.6). It stood on the F. Coarelli, "La Porta Trionfale e la Via dei Trionfi," DialArch 2 lower slopes of the Capitol by the *Vicus Iugarius (1968) 77. AESCULAPIUS, AEDES The Temple to Aesculapius (Epidauran Asclepius), temple within a precinct is often reconstructed, but built on the Tiber island in 293 B.C. after a serious this is completely hypothetical (Richardson fig. 37; plague occasioned the introduction of the cult to Rome Besnier 317 f. for Renaissance artists' reconstruc- (Livy 10.47.6-7). From this time on, the *Insula Tibe- tions). The Severan Marble Plan suggests that the rina acted as a place of refuge and of healing in the Re- small precinct was composed of a courtyard enclosed publican city (Guarducci; Brucia 63 f.). Both literary with a series of rooms (Rodriguez Almeida, Forma pI. (Varro, Ling. 7.57) and epigraphic (CIL VI 7) evidence 42, frag. 32). suggests that the temple, along with the entire island, underwent a major reconstruction and monumenta- Claridge, Rome (1998) 227, fig. 105. lization around the mid-1st c. B.C (Degrassi 1987). D. Degrassi, s.v. "Aesculapius, aedes, templum (Insula Tiberina)," The Temple of Aesculapius is believed to have LTUR 1,21-22. stood on the SE end of the island, probably under the Richardson 4. Church of S. Bartolomeo (Richardson; Degrassi, LTUR M.A. Brucia, Tiber island in ancient and medieval Rome (New York 21).Although the temple is archaeologically unknown, 1990). the mid-1st c. B.C travertine and tufa revetment at the D. Degrassi, "Interventi edilizi sull'isola Tiberina nel I see. a.c.: nota S tip of the island imitating a trireme prow and its sulle testimonianze letterarie, epigrafiche ed archeologiche," reliefs (head of Aesculapius and a staff entwined with Athenaeum 75 (1987) 521-27. a serpent, see Claridge 227, fig. 105), as well as the M. Guarducci, "L'isola TibID'ina e la sua tradizione ospitaliera," terra cotta votive offerings from the head of the *Pons RendLinc 125 (1971) 267-81. Fabricius (Richardson), strongly support this loca- M. Besnier, L'Ue Tiberine dans l'antiquitt' (Paris 1902). tion. It seems likely that a small-scale temple stood at the very S end, directly above the prow. A hexastyle AGER: L. PETILIUS map index 177 Plot of land in *Trans Tiberim, which belonged to location for the am and the nearby ager along the *Via L. Petilius and was situated immediately at the foot of Aurelia, especially where the street reached the lower the *Ianiculum (Solin. 1.21).The supposed 'discovery' stretches of the Ianiculum. Both hypotheses must of the stone sarcophagus and books of Numa Pompi- remain conjectural in the current state of archaeolo- Iius in 181 B.C left the historical-collective memory of gical evidence; our map tentatively follows Richard- the spot in ancient literature (Liverani; Livy 40.29; son's suggestion, which fits well with the 'sub Val.
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