Kandounon

Kandounon
Greek Surname	Κάνδουον
Lat. Surname	Cantuum
Polis	32. Polis in Germania magna
ptol. climate	Ptolemaic climate II, inner zone north
ptol. map	Germania magna
Dating	around 150 AD
ptol. length	33 ° 00 'longitude
ptol. width	51 ° 50 'or 51 ° 20' latitude
Location after Kleineberg	near Eisenach
Polis before	Pheugaron
Polis afterwards	Tropaia Drousou

Kandounon , in Latin Canduum ( Greek  Κάνδουον ) is a place name, which in the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemaios as one of the places (πόλεις) lying further north in the interior of the Germania magna with 33 ° 00 ′ longitude ( Ptolemaic longitudes ) and 51 ° 50 ′ ( after the handwriting "X") or 51 ° 20 'latitude. Thus , according to Ptolemy, Kandounon lies between Pheugaron and Tropaia Drousou . Because of the age of the source, the existence of the place around 150 AD can be assumed.

Localization

The place has not yet been reliably located. An interdisciplinary team of researchers led by Andreas Kleineberg, who re-examined the information provided by Ptolemy, localized Kandounon by analyzing the ancient coordinates near Eisenach in Thuringia .

literature

• Hermann Reichert :  Kandounon. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 16, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2000, ISBN 3-11-016782-4 , pp. 219-221 ( paid for 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, 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. 78–79.

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 on November 16, 2016

Remarks

1. ^ Ptolemy, Geographia 2, 11, 13
2. ↑ Hermann Reichert :  Kandounon. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 16, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2000, ISBN 3-11-016782-4 , pp. 219-221 ( paid for 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. 48.