Boudoris

Location from Boudoris to Ptolemy

Boudoris , also Latin Budoris ( Greek Βουδορίς ) is a place name, which in the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemaios (2, 11, 14) as one of the places in the interior of Germania (πόλεις) with 28 ° 00ˈ longitude ( Ptolemaic longitudes ) and 51 ° 00ˈ latitude (according to the handwriting Ω) or with 49 ° 00ˈ latitude (according to the handwriting X). According to Ptolemy, Boudoris lies between Alison and Mattiakon . Because of the age of the spring, the existence of the settlement around 150 AD can be assumed.

localization

So far the ancient place could not be located with certainty. An interdisciplinary research team led by Andreas Kleineberg, who re-examined and interpreted the Ptolemaic coordinates from 2006 to 2009, is currently locating Boudoris after the transformation of the ancient coordinates - because the value of the Ω handwriting (51 °) fits better with the neighboring coordinates and their distortion - at the Drachenfels near Bad Dürkheim in Rhineland-Palatinate . Remains of a fortification from Roman times have survived on the Drachenfels; Traces of the former ring wall are still faintly visible under vegetation.

Remarks

^ The Geography of Claudius Ptolemy ( English ) Dover Publications. Retrieved February 3, 2019.
↑ Reinhard Wenskus : Boudoris. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 3, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1978, ISBN 3-11-006512-6 , pp. 332–333. ( chargeable via GAO , De Gruyter Online)
↑ See Andreas Kleineberg, Christian Marx, Eberhard Knobloch , Dieter Lelgemann : Germania and the island of Thule. The decoding of Ptolemy's "Atlas of the Oikumene" . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24525-3 , pp. 51 .

literature

Reinhard Wenskus : Boudoris. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 3, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1978, ISBN 3-11-006512-6 , pp. 332–333. ( chargeable 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. Edited by Hermann Reichert (= Philologica Germanica . Volume 34). Fassbaender, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-902575-62-3 , pp. 107-109.

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] The Geography of Claudius Ptolemy ( English ) Dover Publications. Retrieved February 3, 2019.

[rga-2] Reinhard Wenskus : Boudoris. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 3, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1978, ISBN 3-11-006512-6 , pp. 332–333. ( chargeable via GAO , De Gruyter Online)

[3] See Andreas Kleineberg, Christian Marx, Eberhard Knobloch , Dieter Lelgemann : Germania and the island of Thule. The decoding of Ptolemy's "Atlas of the Oikumene" . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24525-3 , pp. 51 .