Fabiranum

Location from Fabiranum to Ptolemy

Heidenstatt (from 1886 Heidenschanze ) at the intersection of the Sieverner Aue and the old postal route in the map from 1832

Fabiranum ( Greek Φαβίρανον Phabiranon ) is a place name that Ptolemaios used in his Geographia (Ptolemaios 2, 11) set of coordinates as one of the places in northern Germania , near the sea coast (πλεις) with 31 ° 30 ' Longitude ( Ptolemaic degrees of longitude ) and 55 ° 20 'latitude are given.

localization

So far, according to Ptolemy, the place in Germania magna could not be reliably located. An interdisciplinary research team led by Andreas Kleineberg, who re-examined and interpreted the Ptolemaic coordinates from 2006 to 2009, is currently locating Fabiranum in the area of Heidenschanze near Sievern in Lower Saxony . The ring wall at Sievern was built around 50 BC. The youngest wall remains are dated to the year 79 AD. It was - presumably as a transshipment point for maritime trade during the Roman Empire - at the intersection of two important traffic points. An old trade route , of great importance at that time, crossed the then navigable Sieverner Aue near the North Sea coast .

Remarks

↑ Book II, Chapter 10: Greater Germany (Fourth Map of Europe) ( English ) http://penelope.uchicago.edu/.+ Retrieved April 4, 2019.
↑ See Reinhard Wenskus : Fabiranum. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 8, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1994, ISBN 3-11-013188-9 , p. 93 ( available for a fee from GAO , De Gruyter Online)
↑ 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 .

literature

Reinhard Wenskus : Fabiranum. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 8, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1994, ISBN 3-11-013188-9 , p. 93. (for a fee 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

[1] Book II, Chapter 10: Greater Germany (Fourth Map of Europe) ( English ) http://penelope.uchicago.edu/.+ Retrieved April 4, 2019.

[rga-2] See Reinhard Wenskus : Fabiranum. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 8, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1994, ISBN 3-11-013188-9 , p. 93 ( available for a fee from GAO , De Gruyter Online)

[3] 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 .