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title: MAP OF THE WORLD OF ROMAN AGE

subject date: 2004-01-16

caption: ANCIENT ROME World map of the Roman period (year O). In ancient times the Romans did not have the geographical notions necessary to portray the world as we know it today. At the center is represented Constantinople and at the lower margins the Nile. The whole picture develops horizontally, from east to west. Print depicting the IX segment of the Peutingerian Table, an XII-XIII century copy of an ancient Roman map showing the military routes of the Roman Empire, executed in Constantinople under one of the Theodosi (unknown date) and discovered in 1500 by Konrad Celtes who gave it to Konrad Peutinger (1465-1547) who valued the information contained in it by making it public

category: HIS

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Italia

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

instructions: Per utilizzi: Fototeca Gilardi - t. 02 3931 2652

Creation date: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

priority: 0

multiplying price: 1.00

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continent: Europa

image century : I

image epoch: Antichità classica

licence: RM

subject century: I

subject epoch: Antichità classica

technique: Cartografia

id: 27262

file name: FSNgilardi_52589.jpg

keywords

mapcartographygeographyPeutingeriana tableConstantinopleNileAncient RomeClassical Antiquity