Rivers and roads dominate this portion of the Peutinger Table, a Late-Antique/medieval map of the Roman Empire. Imagining the imperial realm as smooth and flowing, the map fits an uncertain topography on a straight roll of parchment. It presents the Empire as a set of linear, connected spaces – Rome is where all roads and rivers lead. Space is condensed, bodies of water and land masses stretched and shrunk, and cities arranged schematically rather than mapped precisely.