Eblana
Eblana is the name of an ancient settlement in Hibernia , present-day Ireland , believed to be on the site of present-day Dublin .
The settlement is mentioned under the name Eblana polis ( Greek Ἔβλανα πόλις ) by Claudius Ptolemy in a list of places on the east coast of Hibernia. Ptolemy locates the city between two estuaries, namely the mouth of the Oboka (possibly the Liffey ) and the Buvinda (today's Boyne ).
Some historians suggest that the name Eblana is an alienation from Deblana . Deblana itself is a version of the Gaelic name Dubh Linn (Black Pond), from which the English name of the city of Dublin is derived. Obviously, ancient geographers often left out the first letter of a place; instead of Pepiacum or Pepidii (in Wales ) Ptolemy wrote Epiacum and Epidii . This would mean a history of over 2000 years for the city of Dublin, as the city must have existed long ago at the time of Ptolemy.
The identification is not undisputed. If the Oboka River is identified with the Liffey, Eblana would be located directly at its mouth, for this reason the Oboka was also identified with the Avoca River, which flows out at Arklow . As an alternative to Dublin, the Drumanagh Peninsula has also been suggested as a localization for Eblana.
The small Eblana Theater , open from 1959 to the early 1990s, was on the ground floor of Busáras , Dublin's central bus station for Bus Éireann .
swell
- Ptolemy 2.2.8
literature
- Robert Gordon Latham: Eblana . In: William Smith : Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London 1854.
- Alfred Stückelberger, Gerd Graßhoff (ed.): Klaudios Ptolemaios. Handbook of Geography. Schwabe Basel, Basel 2006, p. 145
- Richard Talbert et al. (Ed.): The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World . Princeton University Press, Princeton 2000. Map-by-Map Directory , p. 123
Individual evidence
- ^ So the Barrington Atlas. Stückelberger / Graßhoff identify Eblana with Dublin.