Po redaktohet Tabula Peutingeriana (paragraf)

==Archetype==
The ''Tabula'' is thought to be a distant descendant of the map prepared under the direction of [[Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa]], a Roman general, architect, and a confidant to emperor [[Augustus]]; the map was engraved on stone<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Brown |first=Kevin J. |title=Maps Through the Ages |publisher=White Star Publishers |pages=16 |language=en}}</ref> and put on display in the ''[[Porticus Vipsania]]'' in the ''[[Campus Agrippae]]'' area in Rome, close to the ''[[Ara Pacis]]'' building.

The early imperial dating for the archetype of the map is supported by American historian [[Glen Bowersock]], and is based on numerous details of [[Roman Arabia]] that look entirely anachronistic for a 4th-century map.<ref>{{harvnb|Bowersock|1994|pp=169–170,175,177,178–179,181,182,184}}.</ref> Bowersock concluded that the original source is likely the map made by Vipsanius Agrippa.<ref>{{harvnb|Bowersock|1994|p=185}}.</ref> This dating is also consistent with the map's inclusion of the Roman town of [[Pompeii]] near modern-day [[Naples]], which was never rebuilt after it had been destroyed in an [[Types of volcanic eruptions|eruption]] of [[Mount Vesuvius]] in AD 79.

The original Roman map, of which this may be the only surviving copy, was last revised in the 4th or early 5th century.<ref name=levi>{{harvnb|Levi| Levi|1967|p={{page needed|date=December 2016}}}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Bagrow|2010|p=37}}</ref> It shows the city of [[Constantinople]], founded in 328, and the prominence of [[Ravenna]], seat of the [[Western Roman Empire]] from 402 to 476, which suggests a fifth-century revision according to Levi and Levi.<ref name=levi/> The presence of certain cities of [[Germania Inferior]] that were destroyed in the mid-fifth century provides a ''[[Terminus post quem|terminus ante quem]]'', i.e. the map's latest creation date, though [[Emily Albu]] suggests that this information could have been preserved in textual, not cartographic, form. The map also mentions ''[[Francia]]'', a state that came into existence only in the 5th century.