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Karl Spruner von Merz: Orbis Terrarvm regni Assyrii tempore   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Karl Spruner von Merz  (1803–1892)  wikidata:Q6186030 s:it:Autore:Karl Spruner von Merz
 
Alternative names
Karl von Spruner / Carl von Spruner
Description German cartographer and historian
Date of birth/death 15 November 1803 Edit this at Wikidata 24 August 1892 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Stuttgart Munich
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artist QS:P170,Q6186030
Title
Orbis Terrarvm regni Assyrii tempore
Description
English: This is Karl von Spruner’s 1865 map, Orbis Terrarum Regni Assyrii Tempore, or, The World at the Time of the Assyrian Empire. The map features six inserts: (from left to right) Egypt and Ethiopia, the Pyramids, The Pyramids at Memphis (Gaza), Thebes, Nineveh, with particular focus on the capital, and the world as known to the Hebrew peoples. Map focuses on modern day Egypt, Ethiopia, Somalia, Turkey, Saudia Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. Borders outlined in color with a key found in the lower-right quadrant. The whole is rendered in finely engraved detail exhibiting throughout the fine craftsmanship of the Perthes firm.
Date 1865 (undated)
Dimensions height: 13 in (33 cm); width: 16 in (40.6 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,13U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,16U218593
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Geographicus link: OrbisTerrarumAssyrii-spruner-1865
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Spruner, Karl von, Spruner-Menke Atlas Antiquus,, (Gotha: Justus Perthes), 1865.

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