Peutinger Table

[MaisseArsouye]

Ave ! Here's a new map for people who like games with the Roman Empire :

Peutinger Table

Map size : 256X30
Ressources : random
Starting locs : yes

Peutinger table is a map from the XII century, based on a roman map from 340 ! It's the ancestor of road maps, or even metro plans. Proportions are false because :
- this map only care about cities and roads going from one to another
- it was drawn on a long but narrow roll

BTW, I enlarged it !!! The proportionnal size would be 256X17

Look carefully and you'll recognize the Mediterranean It goes from Spain to India. You can also find Black Sea, Dead Sea, Great Britain,...

http://users.skynet.be/maissearsouye/civ/cartes/peutinger.zip


I think it would be cool to make an Roman Empire scenario on this map.

 

[Rambuchan]

Wow this is even crazier than I thought it would be! I'm sure this will encourage folk to think more conceptually about how they approach scenarios. Could be a Roman scen or even a completely different and unrelated scen also.

 

[Rambuchan]

And here is some info about the Peutinger Table:

Great Write Up on Henry-Davis as usual:
http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/Ancient Web Pages/120mono.html

The Peutinger Table is one of only two specimens of Roman cartography that have come down to us. This extraordinary cartographical document is a form of road map, a Roman ‘itinerarium pictum’, an illustrated, as opposed to a written, itinerary. This road map is compressed within a strip 34 cm wide x 6.75 metres long, in 12 sections. The Table is a 12th or early13th century copy of a map that was probably originally produced in the 4th century A.D.(ca. 335-365). It was discovered by Konrad Celtes, who gave it to Konrad Peutinger, from whom it takes its name. Peutinger (1465-1547) was a German humanist and antiquarian, town clerk of Augsburg, and intimate of the Emperor Maximilian. The Peutinger Table is now in the Austrian National Library in Vienna (Codex Vind. 324).

Although sections of the Peutinger Table were published in the 16th century, the Table was first published completely, in facsimile form, in 1753 by Franz Scheyb, diplomat, litterateur and correspondent of Voltaire and Rousseau. The map in the American Academy is a reprint of that first edition edited by the Franciscan monk Matija Katancic (1750-1825), professor of archaeology and library curator. He published it in the third volume of his Orbis Antiquus ex tabula itineraria (Budapest, 1825), a description of the ancient world taken from original sources. The Peutinger Table depicts the world known to the ancients, from Britain to the Ganges. The Mediterranean is shown as a narrow strip of water between the coasts of Europe and Africa. The map is schematic in form and traces the direct routes between major towns. One of the most important things about the map is that it records so many small places. It also depicts features such as staging posts, spas, large rivers, forests, and the distances between stages.

http://www.aiys.org/aodl/public/medmaps/MEDMAPS site/Essay_pages/Peutinger.htm

And this is how the lesson in the link is looking at the map:

The Roman Empire at its height has been celebrated for the peace and prosperity it brought to the Mediterranean region and lands beyond. This lesson focuses on a copy of a map dating from about 250 CE, which shows how Roman roads connected all parts of the empire with its center at Rome. Students will consider the importance of transportation and communication in building and sustaining an empire, use a primary source map to visualize the Roman Empire, and develop an understanding of the phrase, “All roads lead to Rome.”
Objectives: Students will –

1. Consider how empires are created and sustained.

2. Study the Peutinger Table as a whole and in detail as a tool of empire for Rome, c. 250 AD.

3. Extend their familiarity with maps to include an ancient time-distance travel chart that synthesizes a series of strip maps.

4. Gain an appreciation for the nature and valve of primary source materials.

5. Practice map reading skills.

Here is some useful info (on a strange site) on trade, commodities, resources and maps to help modders:
http://www.thebeadsite.com/UNI-MAPS.html

On North Africa:
http://www.maproom.org/maps/historical/putzgers/1905/1905.pl?m=0004

 

[aaglo]

Holy crapology!
Indeed, this is a weird map - and now when I look at it, it all makes perfect (?) sense

Good work, M.A.

 

[Rambuchan]

It also occured to me that some kind of Locked Alliance set up would be good for a scen on this map, or you may get steam rollers whiping slowly across from east to west or vice versa. Or missions to access resources at the far ends of the earth. That kind of thing.

 

[Ultima Dragoon]

My god, i thought when i made a map like that it was a glitch!

Kudos to you, sir.

I'm just about to d/l it.