Maroboudon

Maroboudon
Greek Surname	Μαρόβουδον
Lat. Surname	Marobudum
Polis	62. Polis in Germania magna
ptol. climate	Ptolemaic climate III, inner zone south
ptol. map	Germania magna
Dating	around 150 AD
ptol. length	35 ° 00 'longitude
ptol. width	49 ° 00 'or 51 ° 15' latitude
Location after Kleineberg	Amberg in Bavaria
State of research	probably fortified settlement of Marbods after the model of the Romans (Strabo) in the Bohemian Marcomanni Empire
Polis before	Bikourgion
Polis afterwards	Redingouinon

Maroboudon , in Latin Marobudum ( Greek  Μαρόβουδον ) is a place name, which in the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemaios as one of the places in the south of the Germania magna and near the Danube (πόλεις) with 35 ° 00 ′ longitude and 49 ° 00 ′ (after the handwriting U ) or 51 °, 15 'latitude (after the handwriting X ). According to Ptolemy, Maroboudon lies between Bikourgion and Redingouinon . Because of the age of the source, the existence of the place around 150 AD can be assumed.

localization

So far the place could not be located safely. An interdisciplinary research team led by Andreas Little Mountain, the newly examined the details of Ptolemy, opposes any localization in Bohemia (in Marobud Marcomannic realm of) and locates Maroboudon after the transformed coordinate antique in today Amberg in Bavaria . According to Berger, Amberg was a merchant's settlement in the Carolingian era at the junction of the Golden Street - the long-distance trade route between Nuremberg and Prague - over the Vils, which was then navigable . According to Berger, there may have been a trading post at this river crossing in the past.

Ancient sources

• Strabon , Geographika 7,1,3.
• Tacitus , Annals 2,62,2.
• Claudius Ptolemy 2,11,14.

Remarks

1. ^ Ptolemy, Geographia 2,11,14 ( online ).
2. ^ ^{A b} 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. 54-55.
3. ^ Dieter Berger: Duden - Geographical names in Germany . Mannheim 1993, p. 37.

literature

• 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. 235–237.
• Peter Kehne :  Marbod. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 19, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 3-11-017163-5 , pp. 258-262.
• Arthur Stein : Maroboduus. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XIV, 2, Stuttgart 1930, Sp. 1907-1910.

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