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Claudius Ptolemy's Map Consistency and Pannonia

Fehér, Bence (2004) Claudius Ptolemy's Map Consistency and Pannonia. Acta Antiqua, 44 (2-4). pp. 297-304. ISSN 0044-5975

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Abstract

When seeking for the possible emendation of the errors in a map based on Ptolemy's co-ordinates, we have to understand the measuring process of his sources first. Ptolemy possibly used the official formulae provinciae, which were created with the help of gromatic surveys carried out with due precision, but the author had to deal with different formulae, in Pannonia possibly four, which were not consistent with one another. Carefully examining the actual deviations, we can restore the ways and the starting-points of the surveys, and so the methods of eliminating the inconsistencies can be identified.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PA Classical philology / klasszika-filológia
Depositing User: xKatalin xBarta
Date Deposited: 26 Jan 2017 09:18
Last Modified: 26 Jan 2017 09:18
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/46350

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