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Via Hadriana Roman road map

About 853 km long. The red line is the route recorded in the Itiner-e atlas of ancient roads.

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Key
  • Certain Well documented, mapped to within about 50 to 200 m
  • Conjectured Known road, course less precisely documented
  • Hypothetical Route not pinned down, or existence uncertain
  • Secondary road Thinner line, any certainty

How accurate are these lines? Most Roman road routes on this map are approximate. The Itiner-e project, which supplies the data, classes most of them as Conjectured, so read a line as a best estimate of where the road ran rather than a surveyed route.

About the Via Hadriana

The Via Hadriana is a Roman road about 853 km long in the Itiner-e atlas of ancient roads. It is mapped as 18 separate segments within Egypt. 6 Roman places lie along it, from Nechesia? to Antinoopolis.

Only 4% of the Via Hadriana is classed as certain; 96% is conjectured.

  • 853 kmlength
  • 18segments
  • 6Roman places
  • 1country

How sure are we where it ran?

How certainLength (km)Share
Certain32.14%
Conjectured82196%
Hypothetical00%

Certain: well documented, mapped to within about 50 to 200 m. Conjectured: known road, course less precisely documented. Hypothetical: route not pinned down, or existence uncertain.

Where the Via Hadriana goes

CountryLength (km)
Egypt825

Roman places along the Via Hadriana

In order along the route, from Nechesia? to Antinoopolis. Names are the Roman ones from the Pleiades gazetteer.

  1. Nechesia?
  2. Myos Hormos?
  3. Wadi Safaga
  4. Abu Gariya
  5. Deir Abu Sha'ar el-Qibli
  6. Antinoopolis

Modern towns near the route

These towns and cities are within about 4 km of the road, in route order.

  • Al Quşayr (Egypt)
  • Safaga (Egypt)

Source

Road name as recorded in the Itinerary field of Itiner-e (version 2024 1.3, doi:10.5281/zenodo.17122148). Sources most often cited by its 18 segments (segments citing each in brackets): [1] Sidebotham and Zitterkopf 1997 (8): Sidebotham, Steven E & Zitterkopf, Ronald E (1997). Survey of the Via Hadriana by the University of Delaware: The 1996 Season. in Bulletin de l'Institut francais d'archéologie orientale 97, pp. 221-237. [2] Paprocki 2019 (8): Paprocki, Maciej (2019). Roads in the deserts of Roman Egypt : analysis, atlas, commentary. Oxbow Books, Oxford and Philadelphia. [3] Redon and Manière 2022h (6): Redon, Bérangère & Manière, Louis (2022). Via Hadriana 51-100 AD reconstructed road. in Desert Networks project. https://desertnetworks.huma-num.fr/itineraries/DN_ITI037.. Route lines: Itiner-e, CC BY 4.0. See all data sources and licences.

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