TOPOGRAPHY OF ROME AND JERUSALEM

ROME BEFORE 500 B.C.
1. Circus Maximus
2. Temple of Diana (probable site)
3. Cloaca Maxima
4. Temple of Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva
5. Curia (first meeting place of the Senate)
6. Temple of Janus
7. Temple of Vesta
8. Regia (palace of the early kings;
under the republic the residence
of the pontitex maximus)

Ancient Rome with the seven hills delineated. They are the Capitoline, Aventine, Palatine, Quirinal, Viminal, Equiline and Caelian hills. Septimontium, an ancient term for Rome, celebrated the seven mounts within the city wall. (Illustration from Ancient Rome, Robert Payne, American Heritage Press, 1970).

Jerusalem was built on a ridge into which were cut several valleys. The five elevations are indicated. The Mount of Olives is across the Kedron valley, outside the city. The mountains round about Jerusalem are higher yet than the elevations of the city. In the future it will be exalted above the hills which surround it. (Illustration from The Wycliffe Historical Geography of Bible Lands.)