Askibourgion

Askibourgion
Greek Surname	Ἀσκιβούργιον
Lat. Surname	Asciburgium
Polis	20. Polis in Germania magna
ptol. climate	Ptolemaic climate II, inner zone north
ptol. map	Germania magna
Dating	around 150 AD
ptol. length	27 ° 45 'long
ptol. width	52 ° 30 'latitude
Polis afterwards	Nabalia

Askiborgion , in Latin Asciburgium ( Greek Ἀσκιβούργιον ) is a place name, which in the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemaios as one of the places (πόλεις) lying in the interior of the Germania magna north in the west with 27 ° 30 ′ longitude ( Ptolemaic longitudes ) or 27 ° 45 'longitude and 52 ° 30' latitude is indicated. According to Ptolemy, Askiborgion lies before Nabalia . Because of the age of the source, the existence of the place around 150 AD can be assumed.

Localization

The place is located safely. An interdisciplinary research team led by Andreas Kleineberg, who re-examined the information provided by Ptolemy, localized Askiborgion based on the analysis of the ancient coordinates at today's Moers-Asberg , northwest of Duisburg in North Rhine-Westphalia , as suggested by Günther Christian Hansen . The polis could therefore have been a station on Hellweg - one of the most important east-west routes in Germania magna.

literature

Reinhard Wenskus : Askibourgion. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 1, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1973, ISBN 3-11-004489-7 , p. 459.
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.
Alfred Stückelberger, Gerd Graßhoff (ed.): Ptolemaios, Handbook of Geography (Greek-German) . Schwabe, 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. 78–79.

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 on November 16, 2016

Remarks

^ Ptolemy, Geographia 2, 11, 13
^ Reinhard Wenskus: Askiborgion. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 1, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1973, ISBN 3-11-004489-7 , p. 459.
↑ 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 III . Berlin 1991, pp. 553-589.
^ 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. 44. On the problem of an incorrect entry on the right bank of the Rhine (area of today's Duisburg) on a later copy, see the Lemma Asciburgium and the literature there by Tilmann Bechert.

[1] Ptolemy, Geographia 2, 11, 13

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

[3] 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 III . Berlin 1991, pp. 553-589.

[4] 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. 44. On the problem of an incorrect entry on the right bank of the Rhine (area of today's Duisburg) on a later copy, see the Lemma Asciburgium and the literature there by Tilmann Bechert.