Index of Cartographic Images
illustrating maps from the Ancient Period:
6,200 B.C. to 400 A.D.
illustrating maps from the Ancient Period:
6,200 B.C. to 400 A.D.
Below are listed the cartographic images in my collection. Each of these items currently have links to the associated image and/or monograph web pages. If you see a map that you would like to view, simply click on that underlined number. If there are maps that you would like to see but do not currently have links to them, simply e-mail your request to jsiebold@cfl.rr.com and I will e-mail the page(s) directly to you ASAP.
Time Chart of Ancient Cartography
| Slide # | Title: | Cartographer: | Date: |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 100C | Town Plan from Catal Hyük | unknown | 6200 B.C. |
| 100D | Clay tablet from Ga-Sur | unknown | 2300 B.C. |
| 100D1 | Clay tablet from Ga-Sur | unknown | 2,500 B.C. |
| 100E | Clay tablet from Ga-Sur | unknown | (2,500 B.C.) |
| 100F | Clay tablet from Ga-Sur | unknown | (2,500 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. |
| 103* | Babylonian clay tablet, world map | unknown | 600 B.C. |
| 103A | Babylonian clay tablet, Imago Mundi symbol | unknown | modern (600 B.C.) |
| 103A | Babylonian clay tablet, Imago Mundi symbol | unknown | (600 B.C.) |
| 103B | Babylonian clay tablet, constellations | unknown | modern |
| 104 | Time Chart of Ancient Cartography | Erwin Raisz | modern |
| 105 | Reconstruction of Homer's view of the earth | (Homer) | modern (900 B.C.) |
| 105A | Reconstruction of Homer's view of the earth | (Homer) | modern (900 B.C.) |
| 105B | Reconstruction of Homer's Achille's Shield | (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.) |
| 108B | Reconstruction of the World | (Hecataeus) | (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.) |
| 109C | Reconstruction of the World | (Herodotus) | (ca. 450 B.C.) |
| 110 | Reconstruction of the Ephorus' Parallelogram | (Ephorus) | modern (ca. 350 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.) |
| 111 | Reconstruction of the World map a | (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.) |
| 112B | Eratosthenes' measurement of the earth | (Eratosthenes of Cyrene) | modern (194 B.C.) |
| 113 | Reconstruction of the Crate's Globe | (Crates of Mallos) | modern (180-150 B.C.) |
| 113A | Reconstruction of the Crate's Globe | (Crates of Mallos) | (180-150 B.C.) |
| 113B | Reconstruction of the Crate's Globe | (Crates of Mallos) | (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.) |
| 115B | Reconstruction of the World map | (Strabo) | (18 A.D.) |
| 116 | Reconstruction of the World map | (Pomponius Mela) | modern (ca. 40 A.D.) |
| 116 | Reconstruction of the World map | (Pomponius Mela) | (ca. 40 A.D.) |
| 116A | Reconstruction of the World map | (Pomponius Mela) | (ca. 40 A.D.) |
| 116B | Reconstruction of the World map | Petrus Bertius | 1628 (ca, 40 A.D.) |
| 116B1 | Reconstruction of the World map | Petrus Bertius | 1628 |
| 117 | Reconstruction of the World map | (DionysiusPeriegetes) | modern (124 A.D.) |
| 117A | Reconstruction of the World map a | (Dionysius Periegetes) | (124 A.D.) |
| 117B | Reconstruction of the World map | Dionysius Periegetes | (124 A.D.) |
| 117B1 | World map according to Dionysius | Dionysius Periegetes | (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 | 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 |
| 119B* | Ptolemaic world map in the Liber Chronicarum | Hartmann Schedel | 1493 |
| 119C | Ptolemy's conic projection | (Ptolemy) | modern |
| 119C1 | Ptolemy's conic projection | (Ptolemy) | (100 A.D.) |
| 119D | Ptolemaic world map | Agathodaemon | 13th century |
| 119D1 | Ptolemaic world map | Agathodaemon | 13th century |
| 119E | Ptolemaic Western Europe | Lienhart Holle (Claudius Ptolemy) | |
| 119F | Ptolemy's regional divisions | (Ptolemy) | modern |
| 119F1 | Ptolemy's Instructions | (Ptolemy) | (100 A.D.) |
| 119G | Ptolemy's modified spherical projection | Girolamo Ruscelli | 1561 |
| 119G | Ptolemy's modified spherical projection | modern | |
| 119G1 | Ptolemy's modified spherical projection | (Ptolemy) | (100 A.D.) |
| 119H | Ptolemy's map superimposed on Mercator | modern | |
| 119I | Ptolemy's world map | Ulm Edition | 1482 |
| 119I1 | Ptolemy's world map | Ulm Edition | 1482 |
| 119J | Ptolemy regional map, Tabula Asia | (Ptolemy) | |
| 120 | Tabula Peutingeriana | Castorius ? | 100 A.D. |
| 120A | 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 |
| 120J | Tabula Peutingeriana: Cyprus, Syria | 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 |
