World maps & models
Piri Reis world map fragment
Historical recordAn authentic surviving fragment of Piri Reis’s world map. Provenance of the artifact does not establish the later interpretation that it depicts an ice-free Antarctic coast.
What this record establishes
Institutional record documented; does not authenticate interpretations.
Record details
- Artifact date
- 1513
- Holding institution
- Topkapı Palace Museum Library
- Accession
- Revan Köşkü1633
Edition note
Surviving fragment; not a complete map.
Museum-display replica of the 1513 Piri Reis map, photographed by Yair Haklai in 2023. The display label explicitly identifies a replica while the original is under conservation. This is not a photograph of the original parchment and does not establish Antarctic interpretations.
Yair Haklai, 16 April 2023, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Proportionally resized; otherwise unchanged.
Image source record · Reuse terms
Image rights and evidence limits
CC BY-SA 4.0, photographer own-work release on exact source file page. Attribution, license link, change disclosure; adaptations share alike.
Image existence does not prove a linked claim. Consult image-specific captions and reuse conditions.
Sources and what they support
Links document the record, the claim’s circulation, an assessment, or reuse terms as labeled. A source link is not automatically corroboration.
- image reproduction provenance; not proof of a linked interpretationhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_peculiar_map_drawn_by_the_Turkish_admiral_Piri_Reis_around_1513.jpg
- image reuse conditionshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- institutional or documentary recordhttps://www.unesco.org/en/memory-world/piri-reis-world-map-1513
Connected records
These are contextual links, not automatic corroboration.
- Piri Reis depicts an ice-free Antarctic coast
This is the exact historical fragment discussed by the Piri Reis interpretation; artifact provenance and the claimed Antarctic identification are separate questions.
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