Marionis

Location from Marionis to Ptolemy

Marionis ( Greek Μαριωνίς ) is a place name that Ptolemaios used in his Geographia (Ptolemaios 2, 11) set of coordinates created around 150 as one of the places (πόλεις) in northern Germania near the sea coast with a length of 34 ° 30 ' ( Ptolemaic longitudes ) and 54 ° 50 'latitude.

localization

So far the ancient place could not be located with certainty. An interdisciplinary research team led by Andreas Kleineberg, who re-examined and interpreted the Ptolemaic coordinates from 2006 to 2009, is currently locating Marionis in the area near Schönberg in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The place Schönberg on the river Maurine in the Maurine valley is possibly related to the ancient place name Marionis.

Remarks

↑ See Beatrix Günnewig, Hermann Reichert : Marionis. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 19, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 3-11-017163-5 , pp. 276-278. ( available for a fee via GAO , De Gruyter Online)
↑ See Andreas Kleineberg, Christian Marx, Eberhard Knobloch , Dieter Lelgemann : Germania and the island of Thule. The decryption of Ptolemy´s "Atlas of the Oikumene" . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24525-3 .

literature

Beatrix Günnewig, Hermann Reichert : Marionis. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 19, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 3-11-017163-5 , pp. 276-278. ( 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. ( chargeable 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 .

Web links

Edition of Geographike Hyphegesis with translation and map of Germania magna , accessed on June 17, 2015
Google Earth in ancient times. In: Der Spiegel. 39/2010, accessed June 17, 2015

[rga-1] See Beatrix Günnewig, Hermann Reichert : Marionis. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 19, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 3-11-017163-5 , pp. 276-278. ( available for a fee via GAO , De Gruyter Online)

[2] See Andreas Kleineberg, Christian Marx, Eberhard Knobloch , Dieter Lelgemann : Germania and the island of Thule. The decryption of Ptolemy´s "Atlas of the Oikumene" . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24525-3 .