Maps from Antiquity: 6,200 B.C. - A.D. 600

105 Homer


Introduction

(Original: 1985 - Last updated 22 September 2023)


Select the green underlined number on the left to read the associated monograph


Monographs
100    Earliest known map, a town plan from Catal Hyük, 6,200 B.C.l00A   Clay tablet from Ga-Sur, 2,300 B.C.
100.2 Saint Belac stone slab, 2100 B.C.
101     Mesopotamian city plan, Nippur District, 1,500 B.C.
102
    Turin Papyrus, 1,300 B.C.

103     Babylonian day tablet, world picture, 500 B.C.
104
    Time Chart of Historical Cartography: Antiquity, 600 B.C. to A.D. 300 (Raisz)
105
    Ancient Greek views of the earth, reconstructed from description in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey
106
    Three views of the earth from ancient Greece: Thales of Miletus,  Anaximander, and Hecatæus (reconstructions)
107
    Anaximenes of Miletus, world map, 610-546 B.C. (reconstruction)
108
    Hecatæus’ world map, circular disk, 500 B.C. (reconstructions)
109
    Herodotus’ world map, 450 B.C. (reconstructions)
110
    Ephorus’ Parallelogram, 350 B.C. (reconstruction)
111
    Dicæarchus of Messana, a world map, 300 B.C. (reconstruction)
111.1
 Qin Maps, 239 B.C.
112
    Eratosthenes’ world map, 170-190 B.C. (reconstruction)
112.1
 Han Maps, 168 B.C.
113
    Crates’ globe, 180-150 B.C. (reconstructions)
113.1 Ancient Chinese world view, from the Chhin-Ting Shu Ching T’u Shuo, 138 B.C.

114     Posidonius’ world map, 150-130 B.C. (reconstruction, Bertius, 1630)
115
    Strabo’s world map, A.D. 18 (reconstructions)
116
    Pomponius Mela’s world map, A.D. 37-42 (reconstruction)
117
    Dionysius Periegetes’ world map, A.D. 124 (reconstructions)
118
    Agrippa’s Orbis Terrarum, A.D. 100 (reconstructions)
119
    Claudius Ptolemy
120
    Tabula Peutingeriana, A.D. 100
121
    Masada Map of Palestine


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