Peutinger Table

• The Peutinger Table, also known as the Tabula Peutingeriana, is a Michelin style pictorial road map of the Roman Roads of Roman Empire, with the exception of Britannia which is missing.
• The map showed an Itinerary of roads with distances between the major cities of the Roman Empire, and included the Middle East and India up to the Ganges.

History

• The map is a 13th century CE copy of a Roman Document dating from the third or fourth century CE.
• This is itself a copy of Agrippa‘s original map made under Augustus (27 BCE-14 CE).
• After Agrippa died in 12 BCE, a marble copy of the map was placed on public display in the Campus Agrippae in Rome.

National Library of Austria

• The map is named after the map owner, Konrad Peutinger.
• Today, it is kept in The National Library of Austria, Vienna