IMANGO MOUNDI FULL
It is one of the oldest known world maps (if not the oldest) and certainly the most famous one. Imago Mundi, or in full Imago Mundi: International Journal for the History of Cartography, is a semiannual peer-reviewed academic journal about mapping. The tablet was discovered at Sippar, Baghdad Vilayet, some 60 km north of Babylon on the east bank of the Euphrates River. La Fondazione Imago Mundi is a not for profit institution that unites the valorization of the Imago Mundi Collection and the production of exhibitions and the dissemination of contemporary visual arts and its languages. The Babylonian World Map, also known as Imago Mundi is usually dated to the 6th - 7th century BC. It has been suggested that the depiction of these "regions" as triangles might indicate that they were imagined as mountains. Mesopotamia is surrounded by a circular "bitter river" or Ocean, and eight "regions", depicted as triangular sections, are shown as lying beyond the Ocean. Susa, the capital of Elam, is shown to the south, Urartu to the northeast, and Habban, the capital of the Kassites is shown (incorrectly) to the northwest. The mouth of the Euphrates is labelled "swamp" and "outflow". Imago Mundi is the only English-language scholarly periodical devotedexclusively to the history of pre-modern maps, mapping, and map-related ideasfrom anywhere. The city of Babylon is shown on the Euphrates, in the northern half of the map. The Imago Mundi (Image of the World), originally written in 1410 by the French bishop and scholar Pierre dAilly (1350-1420), focuses on geography and. The map is centered on the Euphrates, flowing from the north (top) to the south (bottom).
Babylonian Map World Imago Mundi 4.75" Oldest & famous from Sippar Persian 500BC Akkadian text Museum Reproductionīabylonian Map of the World (or Imago Mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet written in Akkadian containing a labeled depiction of the known world, with a short and partially lost description, dated to roughly the 6th century BC (Neo-Babylonian or early Achaemenid period).
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