3,1:5 Constantine

An antique or medieval copying error has made a main road here disappear, cutting off the branch highway needed to link the inland city of Constantine (Cirta) to the capital Carthage. The clue to this is an absurd graphic element that is clearly not part of the TP's graphic repertoire: the copyist has unaccountably rammed the Constantine feeder road into a mountain (and omitted its distance figure). Perhaps a copyist working in bad light thought the base was a route-line. he emendation is fairly plain: this road ought to make contact with the highway line which rises up to meet it. This is consistent with the route network as reconstructed by Pierre Salama.