Maps and Roman Maps of Roman Republic and Empire

[Restitvtvs]

This post is to start a thread for Roman maps and maps of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire.

I'll start with a convenient list of some applicable websites, and add more links here in the future.

I'll also follow with new posts to discuss these and other Roman and Roman-related maps.

Selected Roman and Roman-related map website links:
Euratlas
Gottwein
Preceptaustin (Holy Land maps, in Eastern Roman Empire)
Tabula Peutingeriana (13th century copy of 1st-4th century original)
Tabula Peutingeriana (article with great link to large map near the bottom)
Tacitus (added 7 Jul 08 )
University of Calgary
University of Texas
Wikimedia Commons: Roman Empire (many links to other web pages with more maps)

[Restitvtvs]

From the Wikipedia Tabula Peutingeriana article:

The Tabula Peutingeriana is the only known surviving map of the Roman cursus publicus; it was made by a monk in Colmar in the thirteenth century. It is a parchment scroll, 0.34 m high and 6.75 m long, assembled from eleven sections, a medieval reproduction of the original scroll. It is a very schematic map: the land masses are distorted, especially in 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 Empire, Rome, Constantinople and Antioch, are represented with special iconic decoration. Besides the totality of the Empire, the map shows the Near East, India and the Ganges, Sri Lanka (Insula Taprobane), even an indication of China. In the west, the absence of the Iberian Peninsula indicates that a twelfth original section has been lost in the surviving copy.

The table appears to be based on "itineraries", or lists of destinations along Roman roads, as the distances between points along the routes are indicated.[3] Travellers would not have possessed anything so sophisticated as a map, but they needed to know what lay ahead of them on the road, and how far. The Peutinger table represents these roads as a series of roughly parallel lines along which destinations have been marked in order of travel. The shape of the parchment pages accounts for the conventional rectangular layout. However, a rough similarity to the coordinates of Ptolemy's earth-mapping gives some writers a hope that some terrestrial representation was intended by the unknown compilers.

Fantasic Tabula Peutingeriana link:
Tabula Peutingeriana, 1-4th century AD. Conradi Millieri copy 1887/1888 (worth the wait. 21,567 x 930 pixels, 7,62 Mb JPEG) ) )

More Tabula Peutingeriana links:
http://soltdm.com/sources/mss/tp/tp_0.htm ) )
http://www.euratlas.net/cartogra/peutinger/
http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chron ... _intr.html )
http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chron ... _pe00.html ) )
http://www.livius.org/pen-pg/peutinger/map.html
[url:jnvfn75z]http://www.romansites.com/carta_dell'impero.htm[/url] (copy and paste link into browser window)

[Restitvtvs]

Excellent Danish webpages of 12th century commentary, Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis, on 5th century Roman grammarian Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius' Dream of Scipio.

Much discussion of world geography, climate, etc.

Links on homepage's left side, with scroll down bars, lead to about 100 very good images of the circa 1150 AD manuscript.

Macrobius clearly indicated that he thought the earth was spherical (rather than flat).

[Gluteus Maximus]

Here is a link to a great website devoted to the Forma Urbis. Although only of Rome, I suppose it still counts as a map!
http://formaurbis.stanford.edu/

[Restitvtvs]

Great collection of large, very good resolution maps from Cellarius, "Geographia Antiqua," Published in London, UK, 1823. ) )

http://shambalah.com/cellarius.html



Great collection of large, very good resolution maps from Butler's 1907, "The Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography," Published by J. M. Dent & Co., London, UK. ) )

http://www.roman-glory.com/butler-atlas

[royportal]

Great collection of large, very good resolution maps from Cellarius, "Geographia Antiqua," Published in London, UK, 1823.
http://shambalah.com/cellarius.html Las Vegas Strip Map
Great collection of large, very good resolution maps from Butler's 1907, "The Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography," Published by J. M. Dent & Co., London, UK. ) )
http://www.roman-glory.com/butler-atlas

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Excellent resource. Thanks for sharing!

[Restitvtvs]

Great collection of large, very good resolution maps from Cellarius, "Geographia Antiqua," Published in London, UK, 1823.
http://shambalah.com/cellarius.html
Great collection of large, very good resolution maps from Butler's 1907, "The Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography," Published by J. M. Dent & Co., London, UK. ) )
http://www.roman-glory.com/butler-atlas

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Excellent resource. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you, sir, for your kind comment. It's a pleasure to help.

[royportal]

Great collection of large, very good resolution maps from Cellarius, "Geographia Antiqua," Published in London, UK, 1823.
Map of Las Vegas
http://shambalah.com/cellarius.html Las Vegas Strip
Great collection of large, very good resolution maps from Butler's 1907, "The Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography," Published by J. M. Dent & Co., London, UK. ) )
http://www.roman-glory.com/butler-atlas

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Excellent resource. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you, sir, for your kind comment. It's a pleasure to help.

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And a pleasure to be helped

[Restitvtvs]

It was just a matter of time.

Someone has put "Tabula Peutingeriana" into a web-based application! It's called, "Omnes Viae: Itinerarium Romanum". Only credits I have found so far: "Voorburg (at) xs4all .nl".

Link: http://www.omnesviae.org/

Just a matter of time before someone puts "Tabula Peutingeriana" into a GPS unit application. That would be a fine travel companion for the electronic "tab" that has replaced the wax tabula. Just add durable, efficient solar cell battery rechargers for more sustainable travel, writing & communication aids. 8)

[Lothia]

Ave Civitas,

In researching for my story I found another link to the Tabula Peutingeriana.

http://www.tabula-peutingeriana.de/tp/tpx.html

This allows searches by ancient and modern town/city names. It then gives a pop-up of that portion of the Peutingeriana map for that place.

Tom

[Joe_71]

I think the last word in ancient maps is the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
Although at £251 from Amazon I'm not suprised I've only ever seen it on the shelves of Classics professors.

Ah well, one day... one day.