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An image of the Sallust map (second from top) is here:
<http://cartographic-images.net/Cartographic_Images/205.3_Examples_of_T-O_maps.html>.
As you can see, there are a few other orientations as well.
Joel Kovarsky
On 4/22/2011 8:45 PM, Evelyn Edson wrote:
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Dear Mr. McIlroy: What a beautiful piece! Thanks for sharing it with us. You
are right--Asia is usually on top in the T-O configuration, but occasionally
not. An example of Asia at the bottom is in a manuscript of Sallust, The
Jugurthine War, at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Rawl. G.44, fol. 17v.
Evelyn Edson
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Piedmont Virginia Community College
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