Getidava

Getidava ( Greek Σετίδαυα ) is a place name that is given in the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemaios as one of the places (πόλεις) lying in the interior of the Germania magna north in the east with 44 ° 00 ′ longitude (Ptolemaic longitudes) and 52 ° 40 ′ latitude . Getidava is the last polis in the east behind Kalisia . Because of the age of the source, the existence of the place around 150 AD can be assumed.

The location has not yet been reliably located. An interdisciplinary research team led by Andreas Kleineberg, who re-examined the information provided by Ptolemaios, localized Getidava - this confirms the localization of Wolfgang Timpe and Günther Christian Hansen - using the corrected ancient coordinates as a crossing point at today's Konin (Setidaua) in the Greater Poland Voivodeship in Poland . Kleineberg's research group suspects that the polis is a station on a variant of the Amber Road.

The location of the polis on the Warta creates a connection with the settlement area of the Oder-Warthe group and the early Przeworsk culture . This archaeological culture links historical research in general with the early Vandal and Burgundy as well as with the Lugians .

Remarks

^ Ptolemy, Geographia 2, 11, 13
↑ ^a ^b cf. Reinhard Wenskus : Getidava. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 11, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1998, ISBN 3-11-015832-9 , pp. 568-569, ( available for a fee from GAO , De Gruyter Online).

↑ Cf. Günther Christian Hansen : Ptolemaios . In: Joachim Herrmann (ed.): Greek and Latin sources on the early history of Central Europe up to the middle of the 1st millennium of our time III . Berlin 1991, pp. 553-589.

↑ See Andreas Kleineberg, Christian Marx, Eberhard Knobloch, Dieter Lelgemann : Germania and the island of Thule. The decoding of Ptolemy's "Atlas of the Oikumene". Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24525-3 , pp. 50–51.

^ Corinna Scheungraber, Friedrich E. Grünzweig: The old Germanic toponyms and un-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 , p. 109.

literature

Reinhard Wenskus : Getidava. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 11, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1998, ISBN 3-11-015832-9 , pp. 568-569, ( available for a fee from 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. 308-309.

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] Ptolemy, Geographia 2, 11, 13

[rga-2] . Reinhard Wenskus : Getidava. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 11, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1998, ISBN 3-11-015832-9 , pp. 568-569, ( available for a fee from GAO , De Gruyter Online).

[3] Cf. Günther Christian Hansen : Ptolemaios . In: Joachim Herrmann (ed.): Greek and Latin sources on the early history of Central Europe up to the middle of the 1st millennium of our time III . Berlin 1991, pp. 553-589.

[4] See Andreas Kleineberg, Christian Marx, Eberhard Knobloch, Dieter Lelgemann : Germania and the island of Thule. The decoding of Ptolemy's "Atlas of the Oikumene". Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24525-3 , pp. 50–51.

[5] Corinna Scheungraber, Friedrich E. Grünzweig: The old Germanic toponyms and un-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 , p. 109.