NUOVI DATI E OSSERVAZIONI SULLA FORMA URBIS SEVERIANA

Abstract

This essay aims to present new data related to the Forma Urbis severiana and to deepen and update
some specific aspects of it. In the first part, after the point on the recent findings of specimens from
the area of the Imperial Fora, there is a new one from the excavations of the Templum Pacis. The
second part concerns the problem of identification Porticus Aemilia=Navalia, proposed in 2006
and still under discussion. Some important excavation data, dating back to the 80s of the twentieth
century and never previously taken into consideration, seem to contrast with this identification.
Finally, the essay examines and deepens, in the third part, the marked differences between the surviving
planimetric representations of the Imperial Fora, in the slabs 15-16 and 29 and the available
archaeological evidence.

Keywords: Forma Urbis; Templum Pacis; Porticus Aemilia; Navalia; Imperial Fora.