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A T and O map or O–T or T–O map (orbis terrarum, orb or circle of the lands; with the letter T inside an O), also known as an Isidoran map, is a type of early world map that represents world geography as first described by the 7th-century scholar Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636) in his De Natura Rerum and later his Etymologiae (c. 625) [1]
The Arculf Map of Jerusalem. The Arculf Map of Jerusalem is an ancient ground plan map of the city of Jerusalem which was published in manuscripts of the first book of De Locis Sanctis by Arculf via Adomnán, dated to 680 CE. [1] Not all the known manuscripts of the text include the maps and plans. [2]
Imaginary maps of the ancient city and copies of existing maps are excluded. The Madaba Map discovered in modern-day Jordan is the oldest known map of Jerusalem, [2] in the form of a mosaic in a Greek Orthodox Church.
The Map was a greatly elaborated version of the medieval tripartite or T and O map; it was centred on Jerusalem with east at the top of the map. It represented Rome in the shape of a lion, and had an evident interest in the distribution of bishoprics. [ 30 ]
Jerusalem on the Madaba Map. The Madaba Map, also known as the Madaba Mosaic Map, is part of a floor mosaic in the early Byzantine church of Saint George in Madaba, Jordan.. The mosaic map depicts an area from Lebanon in the north to the Nile Delta in the south, and from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Eastern Desert.
For this purpose he hired a young German map maker, Heinrich Kiepert… Through his efforts the maps of ancient Israel were thoroughly revised and improved; modern cartography of the Holy Land begun." [3] [4] The sources for the map of Palestine were set out by Robinson in the introduction to the first volume of the first edition of his work: [5]
See Cartography of Jerusalem, which covers historical of maps of Jerusalem, for the main article on this topic. Pages in category "Old maps of Jerusalem" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
De-Pierre Map. De-Pierre Map is an ancient map of the city of Jerusalem which was drawn by and signed in Latin : De Pierre Eques SSmi Sepulchri in 1728 . De Pierre a French pilgrim an Equestrian Knight of the Holy Sepulchre. Today the map is found within the Eran Laor maps collection in the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem.