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Hi MapHist Wikipedia can be useful at times, if this is correct: Richard Janko, in Classical Review 59.2(2009) pp. 403-410 has offered strong arguments favoring the case for forgery. See http://www.scribd.com/doc/20842686/The-Artemidorus-Papyrus-sulla-Classical-Review The 2008 Conference http://papyrology.blogspot.com/2009/10/k-brodersen-j-elsner-eds-images-and.html working papers from the conference http://www.unc.edu/~talbert/Documents/Images%20and%20Texts%20on%20the%20Artemidorus%20Papyrus.pdf The 2009 conference: http://www.unc.edu/awmc/ It seems to have received quite a bit of attention. Doug Monday, April 5, 2010, 5:24:36 PM, you wrote: > This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the > whole list) > o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + > Vladimiro, > While I can't answer why there hasn't been more published, I can > confirm that the Romans were certainly capable of large scale > surveys. The planning and execution of their road network required > those same skills. My study of the British section of the Ravenna > Cosmography indicates that the text was sampled from a map divided > into areas approximately 1X2 degrees increasing in distortion from > south to north, though less distorted that Ptolemy's representation. > (He erred in re-assembling his data by taking a piece of > Northumberland coast and inserting it into southern Scotland.) > -- > Tom Ikins > The Roman Map of Britain > http://www.romanmap.com > _______________________________________________ > MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography > hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. > The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of > the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of > Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for > the views of the author. > List Information: http://www.maphist.nl > Maphist mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist -- -- Doug Weller Moderator, sci.archaeology.moderated Director and Moderator The Hall of Ma'at http://www.hallofmaat.com Doug's Skeptical Archaeology Site: http://www.ramtops.co.uk _______________________________________________ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.nl Maphist mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist
