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The Peutinger Table conveys similar information as the itineraries but in visual form. It is a remarkable map of the Roman Empire drawn upon a scroll 22 feet (672 cm) long and no more than 13 inches (33 cm) high and composed of eleven parchment segments (Figure 3.1). The most recent study identifies the extant map as a late Carolingian (c. 1200) copy of a Diocletianic original (Talbert 2010: 83–84, 136). It depicts the roads and cities of the later Roman Empire, not in a geometrical projection akin to Eratosthenes’s or Ptolemy’s maps, but rather as a conception of the world with Rome at the center and Roman infrastructure highlighted, while land masses are compressed and stretched out of proportion. Segments 8 to 11 of the map depict the Near East: Palestine and Syria run along the bottom of segments 8 and 9, Antioch occupies a prominent position at the right side of segment 9, and Commagene and Mesopotamia run across segments 9 to 11.¹¹ The Stadiasmus Maris Magni (Codex Matritensis 121) lists the harbors along the North Syrian coast, some of which appear on the Peutinger Table, including Balanea, Paltos, Gabala, Laodicia, Seleucia, and Alexandria ad Issum (Müller GGM I, 472–476, §§129–153).