A Commentary on the Peutinger Map

佩廷格地图评论

• 批准号: 319254113
• 负责人: Privatdozentin Dr. Silke Diederich
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Abteilung Klassische Philologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/319254113?language=en
• 关键词: Commentary; Peutinger; Map

The Peutinger Map (TP), part of the UNESCO world heritage, is acase sui generis in the history of cartography. This parchment scroll,drawn about 1200 AD, is a replica of a late antique original. As it is theonly large-size map that passed down from antiquity, it is evident, howessential its analysis is to understand concepts of space in antiquity.Unique in the first place is its whimsical dimensions: Being about 6,80m long, but only 33 cm high, it represents the oikumene from Spain toIndia with extreme distortions. Here we can grasp the elusive antiquetradition of not-to-scale maps, originating from outside the highly elitistschools of mathematical geography, allowing an unparalleled insightinto the geographical knowledge of a somewhat larger audienceamong Rome`s upper classes. Due to its singularity it has been thesubject of a lively discussion for 250 years, fueled by the spatial turnwith its incentives to pay attention to forms and concepts of spacewithin their cultural backgrounds throughout the sciences.Controversies exist most notably about date of origin and stages ofdevelopment, relations to other maps and written geographicalsources, design, correctness and functionality, mistakes in copyingand medieval modifications. This set of problems necessitates an up-to-date commentary on the roughly 4000 toponyms in order to providea base for future research. This desideratum has been remindedrepeatedly, as the outdated, incomplete and faulty works ofDesjardins and Miller and even the Barrington Atlas require additionand correction. This need is to be met by the projected commentary,planned to be issued right from the beginning as an interactive openaccess internet database, which is going to be updated andcomplemented continuously. The premises and the methodical accesschosen for comment and analysis will be innovative in severalregards, because many of the prevailing opinions concerning dating,sources and purpose will be challenged, first of all by dating theprototype of the TP as far back as into the early Hellenistic period; ifthis hypothesis proves right, history of ancient cartography will have tobe rewritten, as the TP would have to be assessed not as a result ofGreek-Roman cartographic tradition, but rather as the product of anearly stage in that line of development. Moreover, suspending onefixed date of origin, the TP shall rather be understood as a work in progress, during whose stages of development purpose and functionmight have shifted with the changing cultural and historicalbackgrounds. Based on modern spatial theories the TP shall beevaluated as a document of human culture, which illustrates, how thisparticular form of representing a geographic, and at the same timesocial, politic and religious space has been used through the ages asa repository of knowledge and a medium of memoria, which will allowto draw conclusions about forms of generating and transmittingknowledge in general.

普廷格地图 (TP) 是联合国教科文组织世界遗产的一部分，是制图史上的一个独特案例。这幅羊皮纸卷轴绘制于公元 1200 年左右，是晚期古董原件的复制品。由于它是唯一一张从古代流传下来的大尺寸地图，很明显，它的分析对于理解古代的空间概念是多么重要。首先独特的是它异想天开的尺寸：长约 6.80m，但高仅 33 厘米，它代表了从西班牙到印度的 Oikumene，极度扭曲。在这里，我们可以掌握不按比例地图的难以捉摸的古老传统，它起源于数学地理学的高度精英学派之外，使我们能够对罗马上层阶级中更多受众的地理知识有无与伦比的洞察力。由于它的独特性，它在 250 年来一直是热烈讨论的主题，空间转向及其在整个科学领域关注其文化背景中的空间形式和概念的激励推动了这一主题。争议最显着的是关于起源日期和发展阶段、与其他地图和书面地理资源的关系、设计、正确性和功能、复制错误和中世纪修改。这一系列问题需要对大约 4000 个地名进行最新的注释，以便为未来的研究提供基础。这个愿望已经被一再提醒，因为德贾丁斯和米勒的过时的、不完整的和有缺陷的著作，甚至《巴林顿图集》都需要补充和修正。这一需求将通过预计的评论来满足，该评论计划从一开始就作为交互式开放获取互联网数据库发布，并将不断更新和补充。评论和分析所选择的前提和有条不紊的途径将在几个方面具有创新性，因为许多关于年代、来源和目的的流行观点将受到挑战，首先，TP 原型的年代可追溯到早期希腊化时期；如果这个假设被证明是正确的，古代地图学的历史将不得不重写，因为TP将不得不被评估为不是希腊罗马地图学传统的结果，而是作为该发展路线早期阶段的产物。而且，暂且不去确定起源日期，TP应该被理解为一项正在进行的工作，在其发展阶段，其目的和功能可能会随着文化和历史背景的变化而发生变化。根据现代空间理论，TP应被评估为人类文化的文献，它说明了这种代表地理空间，同时代表社会、政治和宗教空间的特殊形式如何在各个世纪中被用作知识的储存库和记忆的媒介，这将允许得出关于一般知识的生成和传播形式的结论。