Cadastral Maps

Surveyed maps of land parcels, boundaries, and ownership used for taxation, inheritance, irrigation, and legal disputes.

Core metadata

ID: surveyed_cadastral_maps
Era: Classical
First known date: 70 (decade)
Region: Roman Arausio / Orange cadastral land-register maps in Gallia Narbonensis
Review status: source_checked
Maturity: N/A

Roman Large-Scale Mapping in the Early Empire (University of Chicago Press / History of Cartography, 1987, textbook) • Supports: node
Locator: The chapter states that substantial fragments survive of cadastral maps carved in stone at Orange, the Roman Arausio.
Cadastres romains (POP Tourisme / Orange Roman Cadastres, 2026, museum) • Supports: node
Locator: The site describes the Orange Roman cadastres as first-century marble land registers used to distribute land and set taxes.

Edge/source evidence summary:

Prerequisite	Type	Confidence	Evidence level	Note	Sources
Surveying (surveying)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Surveying provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	Geometry (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2026, textbook) • Supports: edge
Record Keeping (record_keeping)	historical_predecessor	75%	expert_inference	Record Keeping is an earlier historical predecessor or foundation, not a one-to-one engineering dependency.	How to write cuneiform (British Museum, 2020, museum) • Supports: edge
Ancient Written Law Codes (codified_law)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Codified Law provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	The Ur-Nammu Law Code (The Schoyen Collection, 2011, museum) • Supports: edge
Basic Cartography (basic_cartography)	historical_predecessor	75%	expert_inference	Basic Cartography is an earlier historical predecessor or foundation, not a one-to-one engineering dependency.	No sources recorded.

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