Tabula Peutingeriana
- Date
- c. century IV (copia medieval del century XIII) · confidence low
- Place
- Rome (lost original), Italy
- Credited to
- Anonymous Roman cartographers; copy by a monk of Colmar
- People
- 👤 Castorius
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
A scroll over six metres long showing the Roman road network with distances between cities, stations and ports, as a very elongated diagram. It is the only major Roman road map to survive.
The original is attributed to a 4th-century prototype with later additions; the surviving copy dates from the 12th or 13th century (Vienna). The date and place of the original are uncertain.
What it led to
- a model of itinerary map for travellers and officials
- a key source for the historical geography of roads and the cursus publicus