Table 2 Fields in the Itiner-e dataset.
From: Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire
Attribute | Value | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
FID | Numeric | Unique numerical identifier | 3612 |
Name | Text | Start and end point of the road segment, ancient or modern toponyms | Caesarea Maritima–Legio |
Type | Text | ‘Main Road’ or ‘Secondary Road’ | Main Road |
Lower_Date | Numeric | Start date of the road, negative values for dates BCE. 9999 means uncertain. | 70 |
Low_Date_E [Lower Date Error] | Numeric | Possible time span before the ‘Lower Date’ when the road might have existed. 9999 means uncertain. | 1 |
Upper_Date | Numeric | End date of the road, negative values for dates BCE. 9999 means uncertain. | 9999 |
Up_Date_E [Upper Date Error] | Numeric | Possible time span after the ‘Upper Date’ when the road might have still been in use. 9999 means uncertain. | 9999 |
Descriptio [Description] | Text | Brief description | Conjectured part of the road through Carmel range |
Citation | Text | Author performing the digitisation | Adam Pažout |
Bibliograp [Bibliography] | Text | Short bibliographical reference (name, year) of the source(s) used for the digitisation | Tepper 2007, Paz and Paz 2006 |
Cons_per_e [Construction Period] | Text | Name of the magistrate or emperor during whose tenure the road was formalised, with exact dates in parenthesis | Vespasian (69–70 CE) |
Itinerary | Text | Conventional name of the road in ancient or modern sources, ancient itinerary it was part of | Tabula Peutingeriana |
Segment_s [Segment Certainty] | Text | ‘Certain’, ‘Conjectured’, Hypothetical’ | Conjectured |
Shape_Leng [Shape Length] | Numeric | Geodesic length (in metres) | 18158.767 |
Avg_Slope [Average Slope] | Numeric | Average slope along the length of the segment (in degrees) | 4.03 |
