The Tabula Peutingeriana, mapping the Roman world from Iberia+Britain to Bactria+India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_Peutingeriana …pic.twitter.com/hliP8BgUhz
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@caitlinrgreen I read somewhere Romans had smaller maps like Antonine Itinerary or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itinerarium_Burdigalense …
@morangles Oh, I think you must be right, for practical travelling! But thinking more of Late Roman world view, esp of diplomats :)
@caitlinrgreen Procopius Sidonius Appolinaris
@morangles Indeed :) Essentially, what would the 'mental map' of the known world have looked like for a 5thC diplomat :)
@caitlinrgreen JAerome and Augistine of Hippo can provide clues
@caitlinrgreen Perhaps, but I've always been impressed by the Ptolemaic depiction of Iberia, France and Italy. Britain not so much!
@GeorgeRick1 Yes, Britain is a little dubious on Ptolemy! Altho' there was an article a few yrs back that showed that it all works, really!
@caitlinrgreen addind that the map is huge - see copy at @museecluny last December it is cumbersomepic.twitter.com/VNkwKqiwqV
@caitlinrgreen The tabula is a lot more practical than a mappa mundi but the problem is that is is way too big who needs a map to Trebizond?
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