SOME CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT SEVERAL ROADS FROM MOESIA REFLECTED IN ITINERARIA PICTA ET ADNOTATA
SOME CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT SEVERAL ROADS FROM MOESIA REFLECTED IN ITINERARIA PICTA ET ADNOTATA

Summary/Abstract: Several years ago, in 2011, I started a research focused on some of the most important cartographic documents of the Roman world: the Peutinger map and the Antonine itinerary. The idea for this research started from several fundamental questions: 1. Do the Peutinger map and the Antonine itinerary offer different information related to the roads of the Roman provinces? 2. How can one establish this? 3. How did other late sources, such as the Notitia Dignitatum, the Bordeaux itinerary, or the Cosmography of the Anonymous from Ravenna, present or describe these regions? 4. How were the Peutinger map and the Antonine itinerary actually compiled? 5. By analyzing the routes of these provinces, can one obtain new information useful to dating the above-metioned documents? 6. So far, in order to date these documents, historians have discussed them as a whole or separately, focusing on small, sometimes insignificant details from certain areas. What other methodological criteria or means can be employed, beside the classical, established methods, to provide new data? 7. Can we differentiate between the purpose of the Peutinger map and the Antonine itinerary? 8. Supposing that new dating criteria can be identified, will they be useful for further research and could this method be applied to other regions, and finally to all former Roman provinces? 9. The Peutinger map and the Antonine itinerary each list around 2700 settlements. Can one compare these two documents by analyzing the presence or the absence of certain settlements, in order to date the documents? To find possible new insights, I have compared the distances between the settlements, and I have chosen to discuss the situation from Moesia.

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