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Primary source · late-antique route-map tradition; extant medieval copy

Peutinger Table

The Peutinger Table is included as a cartographic control on Roman route knowledge. It is especially useful for reminding the reader that surviving maps privilege connected routes and settlements rather than every economically important place.

A long, compressed Roman route map showing roads, cities and regions.
Tabula Peutingeriana, medieval copy of a late-antique Roman route-map tradition. Wikimedia Commons · source · Public domain / PDM 1.0

Why this source matters

The Peutinger Table is included as a cartographic control on Roman route knowledge. It is especially useful for reminding the reader that surviving maps privilege connected routes and settlements rather than every economically important place.

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 primary source on this page is the route-map itself. The accompanying image links to the relevant source page; see the bibliography below for facsimile and study.

Bibliography and editions

Critical editions and further reading

  • Facsimile / study. K. Miller, Die Weltkarte des Castorius genannt die Peutingersche Tafel (1887). Open reference.
  • Standard study. R. J. A. Talbert, Rome’s World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered (2010). Cambridge: Talbert, Rome’s World.

Supplemental digital resources

  • Digital map interface. Talbert / DARMC, Peutinger Map. Open resource

Rights boundary. Ancient texts and public-domain images are not relicensed by Kassiteros. Modern editions and translations retain their own rights. Only Kassiteros-authored commentary and original project metadata are intended to fall under the project’s CC BY 4.0 policy.