by Maria Pazarli, Evangelos Livieratos & Chryssoula Boutoura

In history of cartography and maps the Tabula Peutingeriana it is considered one of the most important cartographic representations of roman itineraria and an important source for the history of late roman antiquity, especially concerning the road networks implying the mobility pattern in the roman era. It represents almost the whole of the Roman Empire, from the Iberian Peninsula to its east end. The map was originally designed in the 4th c. a. C. and is known from its 13th c. copy. In this paper we visit the “peutingerian” Crete as depicted in Tabula Peutingeriana in terms of modern digital image technologies, analyzing the relevance of the road network in association to Cretan toponyms in comparison to modern cartographic counterparts.

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