Porticus Vipsania

{{Short description|Ancient Roman map of the world}} {{Infobox ancient site | name = Porticus Vipsania | native_name = ''PORTICVS VIPSANIA'' | native_name_lang = | alternate_name = portico of Vipsania porticus Pollae<ref>{{Cite book|title=Martial's Epigrams Book Two|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=9780195348200|pages=70|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WC38cQPn17QC|access-date=2020-05-28|translator-last=Williams|translator-first=Craig A.|translator-link=Craig A. Williams (professor) |oclc=59713644}}</ref> porticus Europae<ref>{{Cite book|title=D. Ivnii Ivvenalis Satvrae XIV. Fourteen satires of Juvenal |publisher=The University Press|year=1932|location=University of Michigan|pages=223|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sINfAAAAMAAJ|editor-last=Duff|editor-first=James Duff|editor-link=James Duff Duff |oclc=164922}} {{Internet Archive|atvraexivfourt00duffgoog|''Satvrae XIV. Fourteen satires''}}</ref> | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | map = | map_type = Italy | map_alt = | map_caption = | map_size = | altitude_m =  | altitude_ref = | relief = | coordinates = | gbgridref = | map_dot_label = | location = Italy | region = [[Metropolitan City of Rome Capital]], [[Lazio]] | type = portico | part_of = | length = | width = | area = | volume = | diameter = | circumference = | height = | builder = | material = | built = | abandoned = | epochs =  | cultures = | dependency_of = | occupants = | event = | discovered = | excavations = | archaeologists = | condition = | ownership = | management = | public_access = | other_designation = | website =  | architectural_styles = | architectural_details = | notes = }} {{hatnote|Not to be confused with the [[Porticus Argonautarum]], also sometimes known as the Portico of Agrippa.}} The '''Porticus Vipsania''' ([[Latin language|Latin]] for the "Vipsanian [[Portico]]"), also known as the '''Portico of Agrippa''' ({{lang|la|Porticus Agrippae}}), was a [[portico]] near the [[Via Flaminia]] in the [[Campus Agrippae]] of [[ancient Rome]], famed for its [[mappamundi|map of the world]] (actually an example of a Roman [[itinerarium]]).<ref>{{cite EB1911 |mode=cs2 |last=Ravenstein |first=Ernest George |author-link=Ernest George Ravenstein |wstitle=Map |volume=17 |page=637}}</ref> It was designed by [[Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa]] and constructed by his sister [[Vipsania Polla]] after Agrippa died.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.quondam.com/e28/2897.htm|title=www.quondam.com/e28/2897.htm|website=www.quondam.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|jstor = 41536195|title = The Porticus Vipsania and Contemporary Poetry|last1 = Rodriguez|first1 = Connie|journal = Latomus|year = 1992|volume = 51|issue = 1|pages = 79–93}}</ref> The map was named either directly after Vipsania Polla or the [[Vipsania gens|gens Vipsania]], which Polla and her brother Agrippa belonged to.<ref name=BRILL>{{Cite book|title=Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography: The Inhabited World in Greek and Roman Tradition |last1=Bianchetti |first1=Serena |publisher=BRILL |year=2015 |isbn=9789004284715 |pages=219 |last2=Cataudella |first2=Michele |last3=Gehrke |first3=Hans-Joachim |series=Brill's Companions in Classical Studies}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Marcus Agrippa|last=Reinhold|first=Meyer|publisher=Humphrey Press |year=1933 |location=University of Michigan |pages=136|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pl5oAAAAMAAJ|series=Studia historica|volume=16|author-link=Meyer Reinhold}}</ref>

==History== Augustus had a world map engraved on marble, following the descriptions given in Agrippa's geographical work, the ''[[Commentarii (Agrippa)|Commentarii]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Porticus_Vipsania.html |title= Lacus Curtius Porticus Vipsania (Platner & Ashby, 1929)|website=penelope.uchicago.edu}}</ref> Agrippa began construction of the map before he died in 12 BC, after which his sister [[Vipsania Polla]] oversaw the project.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Augustan Succession: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman History Books 55-56 (9 B.C.-A.D. 14)|last=Swan|first=Peter Michael|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=9780195347142|pages=76}}</ref> It was not yet completed by 7 BC when Augustus opened the Campus Agrippae to the public. Polla had likely died before this<ref>{{Cite book|title=Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography: The Inhabited World in Greek and Roman Tradition|last1=Bianchetti|first1=Serena|publisher=BRILL|year=2015|isbn=9789004284715|pages=221|last2=Cataudella|first2=Michele|last3=Gehrke|first3=Hans-Joachim|series=Brill's Companions in Classical Studies}}</ref> as Augustus was the one who finished the project at a later date.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy|publisher=Royal Irish Academy|year=1963|location=University of Chicago|pages=151|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JzMeAQAAMAAJ|volume=63}}</ref> It was the relatives of a person who were responsible for completing tasks begun by a person. Once his sister died, Augustus who was Agrippa's father-in-law likely felt responsible for it. It was considered inappropriate to interfere with another family's work so Augustus included a description of the portico that explained the process of its making.<ref name=BRILL/> Although the Porticus Vipsania has not survived, a description of it is given in ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|Natural History]]'' by [[Pliny the Elder]], and it is also known through the [[Peutinger Map]].

==Location== {|class="wikitable" width="350px" align="center" !colspan=1|Plan of the central Campus Martius |- |{{Image label begin|width=700|image=Plan champ de mars centre.png|float=none}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.31 |y=0.31 |text=[[Baths of Nero|Baths of Nero]]}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.12 |y=0.38 |text=[[Stadium of Domitian|Stadium of Domitian]]}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.44 |y=0.44 |text=[[Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon]]}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.42 |y=0.50 |text=[[Basilica of Neptune|Basilica of Neptune]]}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.42 |y=0.60 |text=[[Baths of Agrippa|Baths of Agrippa]]}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.30 |y=0.56 |text=''Stagnum'' ?}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.16 |y=0.60 |text=[[Odeon of Domitian|Odeon of Domitian]]}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.85 |y=0.55 |text=Warehouses?}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.81 |y=0.43 |text=Warehouses?}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.88 |y=0.66 |text=Warehouses?}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.56 |y=0.47 |text=[[Saepta Julia|''Saepta Julia'']]}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.555 |y=0.73 |text=''[[Diribitorium]]''}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.73 |y=0.70 |text=''[[Porticus Divorum|Porticus Divorum]]''}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.75 |y=0.37 |text=''[[Aqua Virgo|Aqua Virgo]]''}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.81 |y=0.345 |text=[[Arch of Claudius (British victory)|Arch of Claudius]]}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.88 |y=0.33 |text='''Porticus Vipsania'''}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.92 |y=0.42 |text=Barracks of the [[Vigiles]]}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.665 |y=0.45 |text=''[[Temple of Isis and Serapis | Temple of Isis and Serapis]]''}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.73 |y=0.53 |text=''[[Temple of Minerva Chalcidica | Temple of Minerva Chalcidica]]''}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.82 |y=0.68 |text=Altar of [[Mars]]}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.90 |y=0.59 |text=''[[Via Flaminia|Via Flaminia]]''}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.735 |y=0.07 |text=''[[Via Flaminia|Via Flaminia]]''}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.68 |y=0.30 |text=[[Temple of Hadrian|Temple of Hadrian]]}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.55 |y=0.30 |text=[[Temple of Matidia|Temple of Matidia]]}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.18 |y=0.80 |text=[[Theater of Pompey|Theater of Pompey]]}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.44 |y=0.80 |text=[[Largo di Torre Argentina|Temples of ''Largo Argentina'']]}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.58 |y=0.80 |text=[[Porticus Minucia|Porticus Minucia]]}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.76 |y=0.17 |text=[[Column of Marcus Aurelius|Column of Marcus Aurelius]]}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.65 |y=0.18 |text=[[Temple of Marcus Aurelius|T. of M.Aurelius and Faustina (?)]]}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.72 |y=0.13 |text=[[Arch of Marcus Aurelius (Rome)|Arch of  M.Aurelius (?)]]}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.47 |y=0.07 |text=[[Column of Antoninus Pius|Column of Antoninus Pius]]}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.49 |y=0.17 |text=[[Ustrinum#Ustrinum_Antoninorum | Ustrinum Antoninorum]]}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.62 |y=0.05 |text=[[Ustrinum | Ustrinum M. Aurelii]]}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.55 |y=0.22 |text=''Via Recta''}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.32 |y=0.80 |text=[[Portico of Pompey|Portico of Pompey]]}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.89 |y=0.49 |text=[[Arcus Novus|''Arcus Novus'']]}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.61 |y=0.60 |text=Porticus Meleagri}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.50 |y=0.55 |text=[[Porticus Argonautarum|Porticus of the Argonauts]]}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.46 |y=0.30 |text=''[[Piazza della Rotonda|Piazza della Rotonda]]''}} {{Image label small |scale=700 |x=0.81 |y=0.77 |text=''[[Villa Publica|Villa Publica]]''}} {{Image label end}} |}

==See also== * ''[[Forma Urbis Romae]]''

==References== {{Reflist|30em}}

==External links== {{Commons category}} * [http://www.myvisita.it/en/poi-culturali/porticus-vipsania.aspx Porticus Vipsania] {{Authority control}} [[Category:Historic maps of the Roman Empire]] [[Category:Marble sculptures in Italy]] [[Category:Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa]] [[Category:Porticos of ancient Rome|Vipsania]]