Mate deacon

Mate deacon
Location of Mattiakon after Ptolemy
Greek Surname	Ματτιακόν
Lat. Surname	Mattiacum
Polis	51. Polis in the Germania magna
ptol. climate	Ptolemaic climate III, inner zone south
ptol. map	Germania magna
Dating	around 150 AD
Poli type	Place by the river
ptol. length	30 ° 00 'longitude
ptol. width	50 ° 50 'latitude
Location after Kleineberg	near Lahnau-Waldgirmes in Hesse
Brief description	Roman civil settlement (vicus) (?)
Polis before	Boudoris
Polis afterwards	Artaunon

Mattiakon , also Latin Mattiacum ( Greek  Ματτιακόν ) is a place name, which in the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemaios (2, 11, 14) as one of the in the interior of the Germania magna and south lying places (πόλεις) with 30 ° 00ˈ longitude ( Ptolemaic degrees of longitude ) and 50 ° 50ˈ latitude. According to Ptolemy, Mattiakon lies between Boudoris and Artaunon . Because of the age of the source, the existence of the place around 150 AD can be assumed.

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 Mattiakon after the transformation of the ancient coordinates in the area near Lahnau-Waldgirmes in Hesse . The remains of a Roman civil settlement have been excavated near Waldgirmes since 1993 .

Waldgirmes

→ Main article : Roman Forum Lahnau-Waldgirmes

Around 2000 years ago, near Waldgirmes, there was apparently a Roman city in the founding phase, which was probably abandoned after the battle in the Teutoburg Forest . An archaeological find that proves the name of the Roman settlement has not yet been excavated.

Remarks

1. ↑ Book II, Chapter 10: Greater Germany (Fourth Map of Europe) . penelope.uchicago.edu. Retrieved September 8, 2019.
2. ^ Armin Becker :  Mattiacum. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 19, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 3-11-017163-5 , pp. 440–443. ( chargeable via GAO , De Gruyter Online)
3. ↑ See 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 , pp. 51 . ; see. 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. Edited by Hermann Reichert (= Philologica Germanica . Volume 34). Fassbaender, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-902575-62-3 , pp. 238-239.

literature

• Armin Becker :  Mattiacum. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 19, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 3-11-017163-5 , pp. 440–443. ( 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. Edited by Hermann Reichert (= Philologica Germanica . Volume 34). Fassbaender, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-902575-62-3 , pp. 238-239.

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