Tabula Imperii Romani - Forma Orbis Romani
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Author/Editor
Current participants in the International TIR-FOR Commission:
- Paolo Sommella, Honorific President
- Josep Guitart i Duran, President
- Georgios Zachos
- Luisa Migliorati
- Laura Ebanista
- Judyta Rodzinska-Nowak
- Florin-Gheorghe Fodorean
- Marta Prevosti
- Núria Romaní
- Moez Achour
Promoting institutions
- Comissió Internacional per a la TIR-FOR
- Union Académique Internationale
Description
The TIR (Tabula Imperii Romani) - FOR Forma Orbis Romani project, sponsored by the UAI (Union Académique Internationale), creates an open access database of geographical, archaeological, toponymycal and cartographical, with a focus on sites and landforms in the Ancient Roman World.
In its current state, it is a pilot project including data from particular regions of the Roman Empire.
Project history
TIR‑FOR is a project born from merging Tabula Imperii Romani (TIR) and Forma Orbis Romani (FOR).
Originally started in 1928, TIR built a 1:1 000 000-scale map subdivided into 56 sheets.
In 2004 the projects were formally unified. The merger, enabled by new digital tools, allowed FOR to act as a supplement to TIR, especially in areas abundant in textual records or archaeological material from the Roman era.
Since 2014 the TIR-FOR Commission has worked to digitise all data into a shared online database and interactive map platform.
More details in the History page of the project website.
Content
TIR records sites dated from the Roman conquest to the 5th century AD, including major roads, urban centres, indigenous settlements active in Roman times, villas, notable ruins, necropoleis, isolated monuments, production areas, harbours, and military sites.
It also incorporates certain inscriptions and historically attested place names.