The First 21st Century Comprehensive Restored Plan of Hadrian’s Villa and its Metrological Analysis

Michael Ytterberg

Abstract

This paper presents the first comprehensive restored overall plan of Hadrian’s Villa in the 21st century. It is based on the best available plan for all known structures. No other published plan includes them all, not even the last such comprehensive plans, published as long ago as the 1980’s by Salza Prina Ricotti.[1] “La pianta del centenario” of 2006, for all its good points, was a disappointment in this regard.[2] For the current proposed plan over 300 plans of individual structures, as well as the overall site, have been examined for the approximately 70 structures and gardens of the villa. With this complete plan in hand, hypotheses for geometric planning principles are proposed for the site that reveal underlying metrological organizational structures that are an alternative to recent scholarly consensus.

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DOI

10.21014/tc26-2025.139

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TC26 - Metrology for Cultural Heritage

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