| Tabula Peutingeriana Peutinger Map.Segment of the earliest known road map of the Roman empire.Copy of a 4th century original made in the 11th or 12th century. From a facsimile. Courtesy of the Geography and Map Division. Library of Congress. Peutinger's Tabula was originally a long parchment map 6.80 metres by 34 centimetres. During the 19th century the map was divided into 11 segments for preservation purposes plus one segment reconstructed in 1916 because the original was lost. |