Umbilicus (reference point)
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Umbilicus (reference point)
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In a typical Roman city, an umbilicus represented the reference point used by the city planners to map out the city spaces, including the pomerium, a sacred city boundary. The place for an umbilicus was supposedly set by examining the sky. The standard city plan included two major thoroughfares, decumanus maximus and cardo maximus, intersecting at the umbilicus thus starting the centuriation (surveying). Umbilicus played an important spiritual role. Not only it symbolized the birth of a city; a
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Aspect of city planning used in ancient Rome
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbilicus_(reference_point)
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2024-03-22T14:16:30Z
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