Abilouon

Abilouon - in Latin abiluum ; ( Greek Ἀβίλουον ) - is a place name, which in the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemaios as one of the places in the southern Germania magna and along the Danube (πόλεις) with 35 ° 20 'longitude ( Ptolemaic longitudes ) and 47 ° 20' resp. 47 ° 40 'latitude is specified. According to Ptolemy, Abilouon lies on the Danube between Ouebion and Phourgisatis . Because of the age of the source, the existence of the place around 150 AD can be assumed.

So far the place could not be located safely. An interdisciplinary research team led by Andreas Kleineberg, who re-examined the information provided by Ptolemy, localized Abilouon on the basis of the transformed ancient coordinates on the Aist and near today's Freistadt in the Lower Mühlviertel in Upper Austria .

Remarks

↑ Ptolemy, Geographia 2,11,15
^ Hermann Reichert : Ouebion. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 22, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017351-4 , pp. 407-409, (for a fee via GAO , De Gruyter Online).
^ Andreas Kleineberg, Christian Marx, Eberhard Knobloch, Dieter Lelgemann : Germania and the island of Thule. The decoding of Ptolemy's "Atlas of the Oikumene". Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24525-3 , p. 59; Květ - Řehák 2002, p. 51.

literature

Reinhard Wenskus : Abilouon. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 1, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1973, ISBN 3-11-004489-7 , pp. 9-10, ( available for a fee from GAO , De Gruyter Online).

Hermann Reichert : Ptolemaeus. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 23, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017535-5 , pp. 567–597, ( paid for via GAO , De Gruyter Online).

Alfred Stückelberger, Gerd Graßhoff (ed.): Ptolemaios, Handbook of Geography (Greek-German) . Schwabe Verlag, Basel 2006, ISBN 3-7965-2148-7 (work in 2 half-volumes, with CD-ROM).

Corinna Scheungraber, Friedrich E. Grünzweig: The old Germanic toponyms as well as non-Germanic toponyms of Germania. A handbook on its etymology using a bibliography by Robert Nedoma. Published by Hermann Reichert (= Philologica Germanica 34). Fassbaender, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-902575-62-3 , pp. 33-35.

Web links

Edition of Geographike Hyphegesis with translation and map of Germania magna , accessed on November 16, 2016
Google Earth in ancient times. In: Der Spiegel. 39/2010, accessed November 16, 2016

[1] Ptolemy, Geographia 2,11,15

[rga-2] Hermann Reichert : Ouebion. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 22, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017351-4 , pp. 407-409, (for a fee via GAO , De Gruyter Online).

[3] Andreas Kleineberg, Christian Marx, Eberhard Knobloch, Dieter Lelgemann : Germania and the island of Thule. The decoding of Ptolemy's "Atlas of the Oikumene". Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24525-3 , p. 59; Květ - Řehák 2002, p. 51.