Limios alsos

Limios alsos ( Greek Λίμιος ἄλσος ) is - insofar as the second member is Greek ἄλσος 'grove' - a place name that in the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemaios as one of the places in the interior of Germania magna north in the east (πόλεις) with 41 ° 00 ′ Longitude ( Ptolemaic degrees of longitude ) and 53 ° 30 ′ latitude are given. According to Ptolemy, Limios alsos lies between Stragona and Boudorigon . Because of the age of the source, the existence of the place around 150 AD can be assumed.

So far the place could not be located safely. An interdisciplinary research team led by Andreas Kleineberg, who re-examined the information provided by Ptolemaios, is currently locating Limios alsos based on the transformation of the ancient coordinates at today's Zirke (Sierakow) in the Greater Poland Voivodeship in Poland . It could have been an old crossing over the Warta . Archaeologically, there is a connection with the Oder-Warthe group or the early Przeworsk culture , an archaeological culture that connects research in general with the early Vandals and Burgundies as well as with the Lugians .

Remarks

^ Ptolemy, Geographia 2, 11, 13
↑ See Hermann Reichert : Limios alsos. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 18, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 3-11-016950-9 , pp. 448-450, ( paid for 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. 49.
^ 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. 50.

literature

Hermann Reichert : Limios alsos. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 18, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 3-11-016950-9 , pp. 448-450, ( 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. 210-212.
Alfred Franke : Λίμιος ἄλσος . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XIII, 1, Stuttgart 1926, Sp. 672.

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] See Hermann Reichert : Limios alsos. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 18, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 3-11-016950-9 , pp. 448-450, ( 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. 49.

[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. 50.