Kantioibis

Kantioibis - in Latin Cantioibis ; Greek  Καντιοιβίς - is a place name, which is given in the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemaios as one of the places in the southern Germania magna and along the Danube (πόλεις) with 32 ° 40 'longitude ( Ptolemaic longitudes ) and 48 ° 20' latitude. Kantioibis is thus, according to Ptolemy, near the Danube between Alkimoennis and Bibakon . Because of the age of the source, the existence of the place around 150 AD can be assumed.

So far, the ancient site is not considered to be safely localized. An interdisciplinary research team led by Andreas Kleineberg, who re-examined the information provided by Ptolemy, localized Kantioibis on the basis of the transformed ancient coordinates in eels . There was the largest stone fort on the Upper German-Raetian Limes . For the fort, however, it is assumed that it was built around the year 160, so that Ptolemy (for him) must have recorded very new information about it. The current name of Aalen can be derived from the Ala II Flavia Milliaria stationed in the Roman fort , while Kantioibis may have been a civil settlement ( vicus ) near the fort.

Remarks

1. ↑ Ptolemy, Geographia 2,11,15
2. ^ Hermann Reichert :  Kantioibis. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 16, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2000, ISBN 3-11-016782-4 , pp. 231–232, ( paid for via GAO , De Gruyter Online).
3. ↑ Dietwulf Baatz: The Roman Limes . 4th edition, Berlin 2000, p. 257; Dieter Planck: The Romans in Baden-Württemberg . Stuttgart 2005. p. 16.
4. ^ 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. 59.

literature

• Hermann Reichert :  Kantioibis. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 16, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2000, ISBN 3-11-016782-4 , pp. 231–232, ( 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 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. 283–285.

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