SRI LANKA / ශ්රී ලංකා - இலங்கை.
Ancient Maps of Sri Lanka.
Map of Taprobana (Sri Lanka) by Tommaso Porcacchi (1572).
Second stamp in a set of 3, issued on 22.09.2020.
Face value: 15 Sri Lankan Rupee.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 41 x 30 mm.
Catalogs
- Michel No. 2322A.
- StampWorld No. 1913.
Taprobana
(Ancient Greek: Ταπροβανᾶ) was the name by which the island of Sri Lanka
was known to the ancient Greeks.
Tommaso Porcacchi (Castiglion Fiorentino, 1530 - Udine, 1576) was an Italian humanist, geographer, bibliophile, polygraph, and scholar. Among his most outstanding works is L'isole più famose del mondo descritte da Thomaso Porcacchi da Castiglione arretino and intagliate da Girolamo Porro padovano con l'aggiunta di molte isole ('The most famous islands in the world described by Thomaso Porcacchi da Castiglione from Arezzo and carved by Girolamo Porro from Padua with the addition of many islands'). It was published in Venice by Simon Galignani and Girolamo Porro in 1576. The map reproduced in the stamp was drawn in 1572.
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