600 BC · 6th century BC · Mesopotamia
Babylonian World Map
The Imago Mundi - earth as a disc ringed by the bitter river.
Catalogue record
| Repository | British Museum, London |
|---|---|
| Custody | Held by the repository named above |
Open questions
Looked at and unresolved. Listed so the gap reads as a question somebody asked rather than a field nobody reached.
- provenance
- No registration number is recorded, so nothing here resolves to the museum record for the tablet, and the excavation history behind it is not carried. The British Museum collection record for the Imago Mundi tablet, which supplies the registration number, the findspot as recorded and the reuse terms.
Related essays
Bibliography
- Harley, J. B. The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
- Brotton, Jerry. A History of the World in Twelve Maps. London: Allen Lane, 2012.