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The perceivable regularity of some Roman villas can be understood in the context of a grid-based design. In this paper we try to clarify the requirements under which we may consider that a villa has an outline based on a grid and we quantify the accuracy of the correspondence between a villa’s plan and a given grid. We follow this approach with some Roman villas in Portugal and use the grids as tools for the analysis and the reconstruction of their plans.
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Pinho, E.M., Xavier, J.P. Grid-Based Design in Roman Villas: A Method of Analysis. Nexus Netw J 15, 83–103 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-012-0138-0
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