Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates, Figures, and Table
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 THE SURVIVING COPY: HISTORY, PUBLICATION, SCHOLARSHIP
- 2 THE SURVIVING COPY: THE MATERIAL OBJECT AND ITS PALEOGRAPHY
- 3 THE DESIGN AND CHARACTER OF THE MAP
- 4 RECOVERY OF THE ORIGINAL MAP FROM THE SURVIVING COPY
- 5 THE ORIGINAL MAP
- CONCLUSION: THE MAP'S PLACE IN CLASSICAL AND MEDIEVAL CARTOGRAPHY
- APPENDIX 1 Latin Text Appended to the 1598 Engraving of the Map
- APPENDIX 2 English Translation of J. Kastelic, “Vodnikova kopija Tabule Peutingeriane” (trans. Gerald Stone)
- APPENDIX 3 Reflections on Vodnik's Copy of von Scheyb's Engraving
- APPENDIX 4 Vodnik's Latin Summary of Heyrenbach's Essay (National Library of Slovenia, Ljubljana, MS 1443)
- APPENDIX 5 Miller's Reconstruction of the Map's Western End
- APPENDIX 6 Wyttenbach's Claim: A Lost Piece of the Map Discovered
- APPENDIX 7 User's Guide to the Database and Commentary
- APPENDIX 8 User's Guide to the Map (A) and Overlaid Layers
- APPENDIX 9 User's Guide to the Outlining of Rivers and Routes on Barrington Atlas Bases (C–F), with Associated Texts: (a) Antonine Itinerary (ItAnt) Text with Journeys Numbered as on Map E, and (b) Bordeaux Itinerary (ItBurd) Text with Journeys Lettered as on Map F
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index and Gazetteer
5 - THE ORIGINAL MAP
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates, Figures, and Table
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 THE SURVIVING COPY: HISTORY, PUBLICATION, SCHOLARSHIP
- 2 THE SURVIVING COPY: THE MATERIAL OBJECT AND ITS PALEOGRAPHY
- 3 THE DESIGN AND CHARACTER OF THE MAP
- 4 RECOVERY OF THE ORIGINAL MAP FROM THE SURVIVING COPY
- 5 THE ORIGINAL MAP
- CONCLUSION: THE MAP'S PLACE IN CLASSICAL AND MEDIEVAL CARTOGRAPHY
- APPENDIX 1 Latin Text Appended to the 1598 Engraving of the Map
- APPENDIX 2 English Translation of J. Kastelic, “Vodnikova kopija Tabule Peutingeriane” (trans. Gerald Stone)
- APPENDIX 3 Reflections on Vodnik's Copy of von Scheyb's Engraving
- APPENDIX 4 Vodnik's Latin Summary of Heyrenbach's Essay (National Library of Slovenia, Ljubljana, MS 1443)
- APPENDIX 5 Miller's Reconstruction of the Map's Western End
- APPENDIX 6 Wyttenbach's Claim: A Lost Piece of the Map Discovered
- APPENDIX 7 User's Guide to the Database and Commentary
- APPENDIX 8 User's Guide to the Map (A) and Overlaid Layers
- APPENDIX 9 User's Guide to the Outlining of Rivers and Routes on Barrington Atlas Bases (C–F), with Associated Texts: (a) Antonine Itinerary (ItAnt) Text with Journeys Numbered as on Map E, and (b) Bordeaux Itinerary (ItBurd) Text with Journeys Lettered as on Map F
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index and Gazetteer
Summary
From here on, my attention no longer focuses on the surviving copy of the map but turns to the lost original. This chapter addresses its fundamentals: authorship and date; sources; context and purpose. By their very nature these aspects are interrelated, and any conclusions drawn about them can only be tentative at best in view of the loss of the object itself. But the importance of the questions to be raised justifies the attempt to formulate responses, however imperfect. Taken together, those proposed here envisage the original map as a bold experiment in combining and developing established approaches to cartography. A novel form of map is the result, with the forceful ideology of Diocletian's Tetrarchy (c. A.D. 300) as its principal inspiration.
AUTHORSHIP AND DATE
In antiquity it was rare for products of technical or artistic expertise to carry their maker's name. Thus the absence of any such name on the surviving copy of the map is no surprise, and the likelihood is that none appeared on the original in the first place. The only scholar who has proposed a named individual as the maker of the original is Konrad Miller. He dated it to the late fourth century and attributed it to Castorius. This identification derives from the fact that one Castorius happens to be the source most often cited in a Cosmographia (by an anonymous cleric claiming to be from Ravenna, c. 700) for information likely to be somehow derived from itineraries.
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- Rome's WorldThe Peutinger Map Reconsidered, pp. 133 - 161Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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