The Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project is an NSF-funded effort to advance the study of the fragmentary, early third-century AD ‘Severan Marble Plan’ of Rome (a.k.a. the Forma Urbis Romae, Pianta Marmorea or Forma Urbis Marmorea). The project is a collaboration between Stanford’s Computer Graphics Laboratory and the Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali del Comune di Roma. Although records for all 1,100+ fragments of the map are not yet available on-line, the site now includes a number of valuable components:
- An excellent discussion of the map, its history and past scholarship, by Tina Najbjerg
- An overview of the project and its aims, including goals, both technological and archaeological
- The fragment database, providing access to records, photographs, 3D models, bibliography and discussion on over 400 of the 1,100+ extant map fragments (plus lost fragments known only from 16th- and 17th-century drawings)
- A clickable slab map, showing the reconstructed layout of the original 130 marble slabs that comprised the map (with links into the database)
- A glossary of technical and archaeological terms
- A comprehensive bibliography on the map
- Sections on people involved in the project and relevant links
