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Dear all,
is there anybody who knows why any historian of cartography has never
studied the so called map of the so called Artemidorus' Papyrus?
Apart from Franco Farinelli (who is a philosopher-geographer) Bärbel
Kramer, Claudio Gallazzi and Salvatore Settis (who are historian,
papyrologist and historian of art) Richard Talbert (who is an ancient
historian and classicist) anybody else seems to have analyzed the map.
Should the map be authentic it leeds to a revolution on the history
of the Roman World, not only from the mere cartographical point of
view but from the cultural and social ones. It means the capacity and
the will to survey at large scale (not urban or architectural scale!,
as in the cadasters and in the Forma Urbis Romae) a territory. The
maps resembles the first modern Renaissance surveys; see the map by
Giovanni Pesato in the Biblioteca Comunale of Treviso, of the half
of XV century (published in HoC vol.III), or a military map of the
XVIII-XIX centuries.
I do wonder why the silence.
Now are ten years from the first appearence in Imago Mundi of an
article on that map.
vladimiro
- Bärbel Kramer, The Earliest known map of Spain (?) and the
Geography of Artemidorus of Ephesus on Papyrus, Imago Mundi (2001),
pp. 115-120.
- Franco Farinelli, Sulla "Tradizione Roaman dei Segni Cartografici",
Quaderni di Storia 66 (2007), pp. 353-370
- Il papiro di Artemidoro (P. Artemid.) / editors Claudio Gallazzi,
Bärbel Kramer, Salvatore Settis, Milano, LED 2008, pp. 275-308.
- Richard Talbert, P. Artemid.: The Map, in Images and Text in the
"Artemidorus Papyrus": Working papers on P. Artemid. (St John's
College, Oxford, 2008), ed. Brodersen Kai and Jas Elsner, Stuttgart,
Steiner, 2009, pp. 57-64._______________________________________________
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