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Resources => NumisWiki => Topic started by: Joe Sermarini on June 18, 2013, 06:54:38 pm

Title: Allison Sermarini's Maps of the Ancient World
Post by: Joe Sermarini on June 18, 2013, 06:54:38 pm

My daughter, Allison, just graduated High School and will be starting at |The |University of |North |Carolina at |Greensboro (|UNCG) (http://www.uncg.edu/) in August. She plans to study Classics with a focus on Linguistics, learning Greek and Latin. Needless to say, I am quite pleased.  

I have given my daughter a summer assignment, Allison Sermarini's |Maps of |the |Ancient |World (https://www.forumancientcoins.com/Ancient-Maps/index.php). It is a gallery of ancient maps using the same software as the Members' Gallery and Fake Coin Reports.  You can see the gallery here:

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/Ancient-Maps/index.php (https://www.forumancientcoins.com/Ancient-Maps/index.php)

You too can contribute to Allison Sermarini's |Maps of |the |Ancient |World (https://www.forumancientcoins.com/Ancient-Maps/index.php).  If you own a map or maps of the ancient world that is out of copyright, please upload it.  If you have created a map of the ancient world, please upload it to share it with the modern world.  

Title: Re: Allison Sermarini's Maps of the Ancient World
Post by: mauseus on June 19, 2013, 02:57:32 am

Hi,

Can I add a suggetion that the map source is added to the title or description, eg "journal Antiquity 1796" as this would add context to understanding the map and the features marked/interpreted?

Congratulations to Allison and I wish her well with her future studies.

Regards,

Mauseus

Title: Re: Allison Sermarini's Maps of the Ancient World
Post by: Joe Sermarini on June 19, 2013, 07:19:40 am

The source is included in the description on many of the maps uploaded so far.  For some, the source information is unknown.  We added a specific source field to the upload process to help remind others to include it.

Title: Re: Allison Sermarini's Maps of the Ancient World
Post by: RoryduPondius on June 19, 2013, 06:02:46 pm

congratulations to your daughter for making this map database it looks pretty good! ;D

Title: Britannia map
Post by: mauseus on June 19, 2013, 06:14:53 pm

Hi,

No button that I cn see to add a map so I'm posting it here and you can move it. It is from the journal Archaeologia, vol 33, 1849. It is from a paper by John Yonge Akerman " On the Condition of Britannia from the descent of Caesar to the coming of Claudius, accompanied by a map of a portion of Britain in its ancient state, shewing the finding of indigenous coins".

Regards,

Mauseus

Title: Re: Allison Sermarini's Maps of the Ancient World
Post by: mauseus on June 19, 2013, 06:17:10 pm

Hi,

And the full page is below.

Regards,

Mauseus

Title: Re: Allison Sermarini's Maps of the Ancient World
Post by: Joe Sermarini on June 20, 2013, 07:16:18 am

Thank for the map.  The button should show now.  It was an incorrect setting, that I have corrected.

Title: Re: Allison Sermarini's Maps of the Ancient World
Post by: Sosius on June 21, 2013, 05:03:55 pm

Great resource!  You and your daughter should both be proud!

Title: Re: Allison Sermarini's Maps of the Ancient World
Post by: JBF on June 22, 2013, 01:45:51 am

Joe, you might see if you can find a copy of Ptolemy's maps of the ancient world.  That is, an ancient map of the ancient world.  On the other hand, that might be a little off your daughter's focus, it is more about how they (the ancients) pictured their world.

Title: Re: Allison Sermarini's Maps of the Ancient World
Post by: Joe Sermarini on June 22, 2013, 03:11:07 pm

Thanks Sosius.  It is just getting started, I hope it is gets much better than it is now.

JBF, Thanks for the suggestion.  Anyone can upload maps, so if you find a print of Ptolemy's maps that is out of copyright (1926 or older), you can add it too.

Title: Re: Allison Sermarini's Maps of the Ancient World
Post by: Potator II on July 16, 2013, 05:11:44 pm

I just discovered (by chance) this resource with all those maps. It's a great and amazing job Allison has done.
Please thank her and congratulations for her graduation

Best regards
JC

Title: Re: Allison Sermarini's Maps of the Ancient World
Post by: Sosius on September 26, 2013, 10:25:44 am

Here's a cool map Allison might want to put in the gallery.  It's an animated gif showing the expansion and contraction of the Roman Empire from the founding of Rome through the fall of Constantinople.  

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-93750

It's from Wikimedia Commoms and free to share (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_Empire_map.gif)

Another suggestion would be Ras Suarez's late Roman Mint map, which I understand he has released into the public domain:

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=ERIC%20-%20Mint%20Map

Title: Re: Allison Sermarini's Maps of the Ancient World
Post by: Joe Sermarini on September 26, 2013, 12:25:23 pm

Thanks for the suggestions. The maps are a wiki. You can actually add them yourself.

Title: Re: Allison Sermarini's Maps of the Ancient World
Post by: Sosius on September 26, 2013, 04:06:55 pm

Thanks, Joe.  I tried to upload, but got the following error:

"Sorry there is no album where you are allowed to upload pictures "

Title: Re: Allison Sermarini's Maps of the Ancient World
Post by: Joe Sermarini on September 27, 2013, 07:58:38 am

Uhhhgggg.  Fixed the settings.  It should work now.  Thanks.

Title: Re: Allison Sermarini's Maps of the Ancient World
Post by: Taras on September 27, 2013, 08:34:21 am

Now the message "Sorry there is no album where you are allowed to upload pictures" doesn't appear, but if I try to upload I have the message "0 upload were succesful".

This is the one I wanted to upload..
"Panorama Italiano", 1861, from the Gianni Brandozzi collection.

Title: Re: Allison Sermarini's Maps of the Ancient World
Post by: Joe Sermarini on September 27, 2013, 03:03:44 pm

As it was, it was too big 1.5 MB.  I will shrink it and upload it.

Title: Re: Allison Sermarini's Maps of the Ancient World
Post by: Sam on November 06, 2013, 06:57:09 pm

A lot of work , very good job Allison.