Askaulis

Location from Askaulis to Ptolemy

Askaulís , also Askaukalís ( Greek ᾿ ?? Ασκαυλίς , also Greek ἀσκαυκαλίς ; Latin Ascaulis or Ascaucalis ) is a place name used by Ptolemaios in his Geographia (Ptolemy 2, 11, 12) set of coordinates created around 150 in northern Germania , places lying near the sea coast (πόλεις) with 44 ° 00 'longitude or 44 ° 15' longitude ( Ptolemaic longitudes ) and 54 ° 15 'north latitude. After Ptolemy, Askaulís was the outermost city after Skourgon in the coastal area of the Germania magna (Ptolemaic climate I).

localization

The ancient place is located safely. Gudmund Schütte already localized Askaulís with Osielsko near Bydgoszcz (Bromberg) ^▼ in Poland . This localization is followed by Theodor Steche and Gerhard Rasch and Günther Christian Hansen . An interdisciplinary research team led by Andreas Kleineberg, who re-examined and interpreted the Ptolemaic coordinates from 2006 to 2009, transformed the ancient coordinates to Askaulis and also localized it in the area of Osielsko near the lower Vistula . 53.183333 18.066667

Remarks

↑ See Reinhard Wenskus : Askaulis. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 1, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1973, ISBN 3-11-004489-7 , p. 459 ( available for a fee from GAO , De Gruyter Online)
^ Gudmund Schütte: Ptolemy's Maps of Northern Europe. A reconstruction of the prototypes . Copenhagen 1917.
^ Theodor Steche : Old Germania in the geography book of Claudius Ptolemy . Leipzig 1937, p. 147.
^ Gerhard Rasch: Ancient geographical names north of the Alps . With a contribution by Hermann Reichert: Germania in the view of Ptolemaios (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Supplementary volume 47.). Berlin 2005, (Reprint of: The geographical names in the area north of the Alps from the left bank of the Rhine to the Pannonian border, their meaning and linguistic origin . Part 1–2. Dissertation [ms.] Heidelberg 1950), p. 21st
↑ Cf. Günther Christian Hansen : Ptolemaios . In: Joachim Herrmann (Ed.): Greek and Latin sources on the early history of Central Europe up to the middle of the 1st millennium of our time . Volume 3. Berlin 1991, pp. 553-589.
↑ See Andreas Kleineberg, Christian Marx, Eberhard Knobloch , Dieter Lelgemann : Germania and the island of Thule. The decryption of Ptolemy´s "Atlas of the Oikumene" . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24525-3 .
^ Corinna Scheungraber, Friedrich E. Grünzweig: The old Germanic toponyms and un-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 , p. 81.

literature

Reinhard Wenskus : Askaulis. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 1, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1973, ISBN 3-11-004489-7 , p. 459. ( payable via 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. ( chargeable 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 .

Web links

Edition of Geographike Hyphegesis with translation and map of Germania magna , accessed on June 17, 2015
Google Earth in ancient times. In: Der Spiegel. 39/2010, accessed June 17, 2015

[rga-1] See Reinhard Wenskus : Askaulis. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 1, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1973, ISBN 3-11-004489-7 , p. 459 ( available for a fee from GAO , De Gruyter Online)

[2] Gudmund Schütte: Ptolemy's Maps of Northern Europe. A reconstruction of the prototypes . Copenhagen 1917.

[3] Theodor Steche : Old Germania in the geography book of Claudius Ptolemy . Leipzig 1937, p. 147.

[4] Gerhard Rasch: Ancient geographical names north of the Alps . With a contribution by Hermann Reichert: Germania in the view of Ptolemaios (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Supplementary volume 47.). Berlin 2005, (Reprint of: The geographical names in the area north of the Alps from the left bank of the Rhine to the Pannonian border, their meaning and linguistic origin . Part 1–2. Dissertation [ms.] Heidelberg 1950), p. 21st

[5] Cf. Günther Christian Hansen : Ptolemaios . In: Joachim Herrmann (Ed.): Greek and Latin sources on the early history of Central Europe up to the middle of the 1st millennium of our time . Volume 3. Berlin 1991, pp. 553-589.

[6] See Andreas Kleineberg, Christian Marx, Eberhard Knobloch , Dieter Lelgemann : Germania and the island of Thule. The decryption of Ptolemy´s "Atlas of the Oikumene" . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24525-3 .

[7] Corinna Scheungraber, Friedrich E. Grünzweig: The old Germanic toponyms and un-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 , p. 81.