Identifier: historyofromepop01gris (find matches)
Title: History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Grisar, Hartmann, 1845-1932
Subjects: Papacy
Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ariance both with our own maps, which bear from southto north, and with most ancient and mediaeval ones, which bearfrom north to south, that having been the usual custom since thetime of Augustus. The desire to bring the most importantmonuments, particularly the new buildings of Severus on thePalatine, more prominently into view was probably accountablefor the peculiarity.2 This massive map of Rome outlived 1 Hulsen, Bullett. archeol. com., 1893, p. 130. O. Richter, Topographie der StadtRom (1889), P- 3- Canina had already given a similar estimate of the proportions. 2 Elter, De for?na urbis Roinae deque orbis antiqui facie. Diss., 1 and 2. Bonn,1891. O. Richter, Gbttinger Gelehrten Anzeigen, 1892, p. 153, and in Topographie,p. 3. The north-easterly direction of the Severian city plan had been already pointedout by Hulsen, Mittheihtngen des archdol. Instititts, Rom. Abtheilung, 4 (1889), p. 79. 140 ROME AND THE POPES (No. 100 antiquity, but at some unknown period in the Middle Ages it
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was destroyed. Perhaps an earthquake dislodged the slabs, orthey gradually broke away of themselves and were dashed to Naioo) ROMAN TOPOGRAPHY 141 pieces on the pavement of the Forum Pads) They must theneither have been covered over by later ruins or else carried away. At a subsequent date great efforts were made to recover theprecious fragments. The earliest known collection of these pieces(altogether 92) was discovered under Pius IV. (1559-1565),having been dug out at the foot of the wall. They were copiedand soon were made a matter of study. In 1742 all the piecesthen extant were attached to the wall of the staircase in the Capi-toline Museum, those missing being restored from early copies.On the stairs, even to-day, they arrest the attention of visitorsto the Museum. Quite recently (1867, 1882, 1884, 1888) new,though less important, fragments have been found, not only inthe neighbourhood of the ancient site of the plan, but at variouspoints in the city, to which they had been carr

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