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Tom,
it is exactly what I meant! As several scholars, like you, believe
that Romans constructed and used maps in modern terms and to scale
(engeneering, tools of power, administrative and military purposes,
etc.) the map on the papyrus (30x80 cm roughly) should be acclaimed
worldwide as a great discovery, the proof of what has been only been
argued till now. I remind you that almost nothing has in our hands
from Greek and Roman world.
As a reminder, from History of Cartography - vol. I (1987):
"The foundation of theoretical Cartography in Archaic and Classic
Greece", pp.130-147, no maps
"The growth of an empirical cartography in Hellenistic Greece", pp.
148-160, no maps
"Greek Cartography in the Early Roman World", pp. 161-176, no maps
"The Culmination of Greek Cartography in Ptolemy", pp.177-200,
Ptolemaic maps (but from late Middle Age)
"Maps in the Service of the State: Roman Cartography to the end of
Augustan Era", pp.201-211, one map
"Roman Large scale mapping in the Early Empire", pp. 212-233, four
images
"Itineraries and Geographical Maps in the Early and Late Roman
Empire", pp. 234-257, three maps (Peutinger table, Dura Europos schield)
127 pages devoted to cartography from the VIII secolo BC to the IV
secolo AD; 1200 years covered by a tens of so called “maps”.
Once more, I wonder why we are not flowed, submerged by hundreds
articles on that event: a discovery of a map from the Roman World.
Why?
vladimiro
Il giorno 05/apr/10, alle ore 18:24, Tom Ikins ha scritto:
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Vladimiro,
While I can't answer why there hasn't been more published, I can
confirm that the Romans were certainly capable of large scale
surveys. The planning and execution of their road network required
those same skills. My study of the British section of the Ravenna
Cosmography indicates that the text was sampled from a map divided
into areas approximately 1X2 degrees increasing in distortion from
south to north, though less distorted that Ptolemy's
representation. (He erred in re-assembling his data by taking a
piece of Northumberland coast and inserting it into southern
Scotland.)
--
Tom Ikins
The Roman Map of Britain
http://www.romanmap.com
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