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Pax Romana Art
The Road to the East
Rome to China · c. AD 100
1.843 kr2.636 kr
Save 793 kr
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- Printed in the USA. Made to order and shipped in the USA.
- Free US shipping. Tracking included on every order.
- Shatterproof plexiglass. Framed prints sit in a pine frame, FSC-certified, and arrive ready to hang.
- Magnetic wooden hanger. Posters come with a pine hanger; the magnets hold the print.
- Arrives perfect — guaranteed. Damaged or defective? Free reprint or refund.
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Framed print
- 12-color fine art printing with fade-resistant pigment inks
- Smooth matte fine art paper, 200 gsm
- Pine wood frame, FSC-certified paper and wood
- Shatterproof plexiglass
- Arrives framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included
Hanging print
- 12-color fine art printing with fade-resistant pigment inks
- Smooth matte fine art paper, 200 gsm
- Pine wood frame, FSC-certified paper and wood
- Shatterproof plexiglass
- Arrives framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included
- Sizes: 16x12″ · 24x18″ · 32x24″ · 40x30″
- Orientation: Horizontal
- Medium: Fine art paper
- Style: Map
- Era: Principate
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Made to order and printed and framed in the USA. Produced in 1–2 business days, delivered 2–5 business days after that — 3–7 business days door to door. Free US shipping, tracked.
Damaged, defective or the wrong item? Email a photo within 7 days of delivery and we send a free replacement or a full refund. Because every piece is made to order, change-of-mind returns are not accepted.
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The Road to the EastFramed print · Black · 32x24″
1.843 kr
2.636 krSave 793 kr
Rome to China · c. AD 100
Silk, Pepper and the Monsoon
In the first two centuries AD, the Roman Empire traded with lands it knew only from afar. The Romans called the Chinese the Seres, the silk people, and their country Serica. Silk reached the Mediterranean through many hands, along the caravan routes across Parthia and Central Asia that modern writers call the Silk Road. The Chinese, in turn, knew Rome as Daqin. The Book of the Later Han records envoys claiming to come from the king of Daqin, Andun, often taken to be Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, arriving by sea in AD 166.
The sea route was faster and busier. Greek and Egyptian merchants sailed down the Red Sea from Egyptian ports and, using the monsoon winds, crossed the open ocean to India. Strabo says that in his day as many as 120 ships were sailing from Myos Hormos to India. A merchant's handbook, the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, lists the ports and the goods, pepper above all. Pliny the Elder complained that India, China and Arabia drained the empire of a hundred million sesterces every year.
The piece
The map is drawn in the manner of an old atlas, with mountains in fine pen and seas in close blue hatching. Rome, Parthia, India and Serica are each washed in their own color, red, ochre, green and blue. The golden dotted routes, one marked with camels and one with ships, carry the eye from the left edge of the sheet to the far right.
Materia · The materials
Fine art paper, framed or hung.
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Fine art paper
Framed prints: 200 gsm smooth matte paper, printed in 12 colors with fade-resistant pigment inks.
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Shatterproof plexiglass
Protects the print in transit and on the wall.
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Magnetic wooden hanger
Posters: 250 gsm museum-quality matte paper between pine hangers in black or dark wood. The magnets hold the print, so you can swap it any time.
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