The Tabula Peutingeriana. an itinerarium or Roman road map, is the only Roman world map that survived from antiquity. It depicts the road rete di emittenti of the Roman Empire. The map survives sopra per unique copy, preserved at the Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna, made by a monk con Colmar, Alsace, in the thirteenth century, of per map that was last revised durante the fourth or early fifth century. That, mediante turn, was a descendent of the map prepared under the direction of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, per friend of Augustus. After Agrippa’s death the map was engraved on marble and placed con the Porticus Vipsaniae, not far from the Tavola liturgica Pacis Augustae con Rome.
The Tabula Peutingeriana « is verso parchment scroll , 0.34 m high and 6.75 m long, assembled from eleven sections, verso medieval reproduction of the original scroll. It is a very schematic map: the land masses are distorted, especially sopra the east-west direction. The map shows many Roman settlements, the roads connecting them, rivers, mountains, forests and seas. The distances between the settlements are also given. Three most important cities of the Roman Pigiare, Rome, Constantinople and Antioch, are represented with special iconic decoration. Besides the totality of the Riempire, the map shows the Near East, India and the Ganges, Sri Lanka (Insula Taprobane), even an indication of Pendenza. Per the west, the absence of the Iberian Peninsula indicates that a twelfth original section has been lost mediante the surviving copy.
It was copied for Ortelius and published shortly after his death con 1598
« The table appears onesto be based on « itineraries », or lists of destinations along Roman roads, as the distances between points along the routes are indicated. Continue Reading The Tabula Peutingeriana: the only Roman World Map that Survived from Antiquity