Flevum (place name)

Location of Flevum on the map of Ptolemy

Flevum , also Phleum ( Greek Φληούμ ) is a place name, which in the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemaios as one of the places (πόλεις) lying in the west of Germania magna north on the sea coast with 28 ° 45 ′ longitude ( Ptolemaic longitudes ) and 54 ° 45 'Width is specified. Flevum is thus before Ptolemy before Siatoutanda . Because of the age of the source, the existence of the place around 150 AD can be assumed.

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Pomponius Mela 3,2,24
Pliny , Naturalis historia 4,101
Tacitus , Annales 4.72
Ptolemy, Geographia 2,11,12

Localization

The place has not yet been reliably located. An interdisciplinary research team led by Andreas Kleineberg, who re-examined the information provided by Ptolemy, is currently locating Flevum based on the transformation of the ancient coordinates at today's Appingedam on the Ems estuary in the Netherlands .

The Roman fort Flevum

literature

Günter Neumann : Flevum. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 9, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1995, ISBN 3-11-014642-8 , p. 191, ( 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. 163-164.

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

Individual evidence

^ Ptolemy, Geographia 2, 11, 12
^ Günter Neumann : Flevum. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 9, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1995, ISBN 3-11-014642-8 , p. 191, ( chargeable via GAO , De Gruyter Online).
^ 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. 41.

[1] Ptolemy, Geographia 2, 11, 12

[rga-2] Günter Neumann : Flevum. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 9, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1995, ISBN 3-11-014642-8 , p. 191, ( 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. 41.