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Tabula Peutingeriana (section of a modern facsimile), top to bottom: Dalmatian coast, Adriatic Sea, southern Italy, Sicily, African Mediterranean coast. Tabula Peutingeriana (Latin for 'The Peutinger Map'), also referred to as Peutinger's Tabula, [1] Peutinger tables [2] or Peutinger Table, is an illustrated itinerarium (ancient Roman road map) showing the layout of the cursus publicus, the ...
A portion of the Tabula Peutingeriana. The Turin Papyrus Map is sometimes characterized as the earliest known road map. Drawn around 1160 BC, it depicts routes along dry river beds through a mining region east of Thebes in Ancient Egypt. [1] The Dura-Europos Route map is the oldest known map of (a part of) Europe preserved in its original form ...
Tabula Peutingeriana showing Ad Plumbaria. Ad Plumbaria was a civitas (town) of the Roman North Africa. [1] The town flourished from AD 300-AD 640. [2] The town is shown on the Tabula Peutingeriana, [3] as being on the road to Hippo Regius. [4] The presumed ruins of the town were discovered in the mid-1800s in the middle of the Lake of Fetzara. [5]
Its antique name, Darantasia, appears on a surviving ancient Roman road map known as the Tabula Peutingeriana. In a medieval text dating from 996, Moûtiers was called Monasterium (root of the word "monastery") from which its later names, Moustiers and finally Moûtiers, were derived.
The location of Capidava is verified by an inscription mentioning a vexillatio Capidabesium and on the measurements made on the ground, following the distance indicated in the Tabula Peutingeriana. [35] The fort is rectangular with NW-SE sides of 105 x 127 m (1.33 ha) with walls over 2 m thick and 5–6 m high. It had 7 towers over 10 m, 3 of ...
Amutria on Tabula Peutingeriana (upper center) Amutria (Amutrion, Amutrium, Admutrium, [1] Ad Mutrium, Ad Mutriam, Ancient Greek: Ἀμούτριον [2]) was a Dacian town close to the Danube and included in the Roman road network, after the conquest of Dacia. The name is homonymous with the ancient name of the nearby Motru River. Its possible ...
Capidava is depicted in the form Calidava/Calidaua in Segmentum VIII of Tabula Peutingeriana (1st-4th century AD) on a Roman road between Axiopolis and Carsium. [5] [6] The map provides accurate data on the distances between Axiopolis, Capidava and Carsium.
Inside the Tabula Peutingeriana, only Sublupatia occurs, which may refer either to Santeramo in Colle, Altamura or to a small region nearby named Jesce. Sublupatia implies that a city whose name was Lupatia was also present, even though there is no mention of Lupatia either in Tabula Peutingeriana or the Antonine Itinerary.