Index of Cartographic Images

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Maps from the Ancient Period:
6,200 B.C. to 400 A.D.

100*

Town Plan from Catal Hyük (redrawing)

James Mellaart

Modern (6200 B.C.)

100A

Town Plan from Catal Hyük

unknown

6200 B.C.

100B

Town Plan from Catal Hyük

unknown

6200 B.C.

100D

Clay tablet from Ga-Sur

unknown

2300 B.C.

101

Mesopotamian City Plan, Nippur

unknown

1500 BC

102

Turin Papyrus

unknown

1300 B.C.

102A

Turin Papyrus (interpretive drawing)

unknown

modern (1300 B.C.)

103

Babylonian clay tablet, 600 B.C.

unknown

600 B.C.

103A

Babylonian clay tablet, Imago Mundi symbol

unknown

modern (600 B.C.)

104

Time Chart of Ancient Cartography

Erwin Raisz

modern

105

Reconstruction of Homer's view of the earth

(Homer)

modern (900 B.C.)

106A

Reconstruction of the Frame of the Greek world

(Homer, Anaximander and Hecataeus)

modern

106B

Frame of the Greek world

(generic)

modern

106C

Greek View of the World

(Reinaud)

modern

106D

Four Frames of the Greek world

(Homer, Hecateus, Eratosthenes, Ptolemy)

modern

107

Reconstruction of the World

(Anaximenes of Miletus)

modern (6th century B.C.)

108

Reconstruction of the World

(Hecataeus)

modern (6th century B.C.)

108A

Reconstruction of the World

(Hecataeus)

modern (6th century B.C.)

109

Reconstruction of the World

(Herodotus)

modern (ca. 450 B.C.)

109A

Reconstruction of the World

(Herodotus)

modern (ca. 450 B.C.)

109B

Reconstruction of the World

(Herodotus)

modern (ca. 450 B.C.)

110A

Reconstruction of the Ephorus' Parallelogram

(Ephorus)

modern (ca. 350 B.C.)

111

Reconstruction of the World map

(Dicaearchus of Messana)

modern (300 B.C.)

112

Reconstruction of the World map

(Eratosthenes of Cyrene)

moderrn (194 B.C.)

112A

Reconstruction of the World map

(Eratosthenes of Cyrene)

moderrn (194 B.C.)

113

Reconstruction of the Crate's Globe

(Crates of Mallos)

modern (180-150 B.C.)

114

Reconstruction of the World map

(Posidonius)

1630 (150-130 B.C.)

115

Reconstruction of the World map

(Strabo)

modern (18 A.D.)

115A

Reconstruction of the World map

(Strabo)

modern (18 A.D.)

116

Reconstruction of the World map

(Pomponius Mela)

modern (ca. 40 A.D.)

116B

Reconstruction of the World map

Petrus Bertius

1628 (ca, 40 A.D.)

117

Reconstruction of the World map

(DionysiusPeriegetes)

modern (124 A.D.)

118

Reconstruction of the Orbis Terrarum

(Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa)

modern (20 A.D.)

118.1

Roman fresco globe

unknown

50 A.D.

119.1

Ptolemaic world map

Johan Scotus

1505

119

Ptolemaic world map

unknown

12/13th century

119A

Ptolemaic world map in the Liber Chronicarum

Hartmann Schedel

1493

119A1

Ptolemy on Waldseemüller's 1507 map

Martin Waldseemüller

1507

119C

Ptolemy's conic projection

(Ptolemy)

modern

119D

Ptolemaic world map

Agathodaemon

13th century

119F

Ptolemy's regional divisions

(Ptolemy)

modern

119G

Ptolemy's modified spherical projection

Girolamo Ruscelli

1561

119H

Ptolemy's map superimposed on Mercator

modern

119I

Ptolemy's world map

Ulm Edition

1482

119J

Ptolemy regional map, Tabula Asia

(Ptolemy)

120

Tabula Peutingeriana

Castorius ?

100 A.D.

120B

Tabula Peutingeriana

Abraham Ortelius

12th century MS/1598

120C

Tabula Peutingeriana

Abraham Ortelius

12th century MS/1598

120D

Tabula Peutingeriana: Greece, Crete, Turkey

Abraham Ortelius

12th century MS/1598

120E

Tabula Peutingeriana: Arabia

Abraham Ortelius

12th century MS/1598

120F

Tabula Peutingeriana: Greece, Crete

unknown

120G

Tabula Peutingeriana: Rhodes

Abraham Ortelius

12th century MS/1598

120H

Tabula Peutingeriana: Palestine

Abraham Ortelius

12th century MS/1598

120I

Tabula Peutingeriana: Mesopotamia

Abraham Ortelius

12th century MS/1598

120K

Tabula Peutingeriana: Rome

Abraham Ortelius

12th century MS/1598

120L

Tabula Peutingeriana: Taprobana, Asia

Abraham Ortelius

12th century MS/1598

121

Madaba Mosaic Map: Palestine

unknown

ca. 565 A.D.

121A

Madaba Mosaic: Jerusalem

unknown

ca. 565