Ebourodounon

Ebourodounon
Greek Surname	Ἐβουρόδουνον
Lat. Surname	Eburodunum
Polis	90. Polis in Germania magna
ptol. climate	Ptolemaic Climate IV (Danube Zone)
ptol. map	Germania magna
Dating	around 150 AD
ptol. length	39 ° 00 'longitude
ptol. width	48 ° 00 'latitude
River system	Danube
Location after Kleineberg	at today's Oberleiserberg in the Lower Austrian district of Korneuburg
Polis before	Phelikia
Polis afterwards	Andouaition

Ebourodounon , in Latin Eburodunum ( Greek  Ἐβουρόδουνον ), is a place name in the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemaios as one of the places in the Germania magna along the Danube (πόλεις) with 39 ° 00 ′ longitude ( Ptolemaic longitudes ) and 48 ° 00 'Width is specified. According to Ptolemy, Ebourodounon lies between Phelikia and Andouaition . 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, is currently locating Ebourodounon based on the transformation of the ancient coordinates at today's Oberleiserberg in the Lower Austrian district of Korneuburg .

Remarks

1. ↑ Ptolemy, Geographia 2,11,15
2. ^ Günter Neumann :  Ebourodounon. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 6, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1986, ISBN 3-11-010468-7 , p. 346 ( chargeable 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". Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24525-3 , p. 60.

literature

• Günter Neumann :  Ebourodounon. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 6, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1986, ISBN 3-11-010468-7 , p. 346 ( 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, ( 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. 153–154.
• Maximilian Ihm : Colancorum . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV, 1, Stuttgart 1900, Col. 361.

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