City
Pisis
Pisa
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Pisis is the road-book form of Pisae, meaning simply 'at Pisa', and the city is marked by the usual pair of towers. The Roman writer Pliny placed it between the rivers Auser and Arno and traced its founding to descendants of Pelops, or to the Teutani, a Greek people. The drawing shows a mapmaker short of space. Distance figures to Lucca and Fossae Papirianae are there, but their connecting lines are missing. On the road south, he dropped the first stretch and its figure altogether and began the next road right beside the towers.