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Primary source · 3rd century AD

Antonine Itinerary — Maritime Itinerary

The Antonine Itinerary provides route-based rather than descriptive geography. Its maritime material, island names and coastal sequence are useful controls for Vectis, Silia/Scilly and the practical geography of Roman movement around Britain.

Manuscript folio of the Antonine Itinerary.
Itinerarium Antonini Augusti, manuscript folio via Patrimonio Nacional / Wikimedia Commons. Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de El Escorial / Wikimedia Commons · source · CC BY 4.0

Why this source matters

The Antonine Itinerary provides route-based rather than descriptive geography. Its maritime material, island names and coastal sequence are useful controls for Vectis, Silia/Scilly and the practical geography of Roman movement around Britain.

Primary-source dossier

The excerpts below are reproduced from the Ictis Anthology — a working paper produced during research for the project. Some of the results were spun off into New Perspectives on the Ictis of Pytheas of Massalia.

The Maritime Itinerary

Item in mari oceano quod Gallias et Britannias interluit

insule Orcades numero iii
insule Clota in Hivernione
Vecta Riduna Sarmia Caesarea Barsa Silia
Andium Sicdelis Uxantis Ina
Vindilis Siata Iga1


  1. https://www.roadsofromanbritain.org/maritime_itinerary.html

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Bibliography and editions

Critical editions and further reading

Supplemental digital resources

  • Digital manuscript. Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de El Escorial, Itinerarium Antonini manuscript. Open resource

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