Documenting the graphic anomalies in the Tabula Peutingeriana, using emendations to show why each is unexpected, and exploring what such flaws may tell us about the chart's late antique history. A companion to the Animated Edition.
1,3:1 Samarobriva Ambianorum
Noting that there is a written figure giving a
distance, XXXI, which refers to nothing else currently visible in the manuscript's
linework, Talbert 601 argues that a copyist has omitted a line. This exit from Samarobriva Ambianorum certainly reflects the importance of Roman Amiens as a junction (see DARE), but this particular one is not likely to have been part of the ur-type of the Tabula, as it does not belong to any long-distance itinerary, and I have duly marked it thin black.
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