Mounition

Location of Mounition after Ptolemy

Mounition , also Bounition , Munition ( Greek griechουνίτιον ; Latin Munitium ) is a place name that Ptolemaios created in his Geographia set of coordinates around 150 as one of the places in northern Germania , near the sea coast ( π Germanλεις ) with 39 ° 30 ' Longitude ( Ptolemaic longitudes ) and 55 ° 30' latitude are given.

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 Mounition in the area near Lubieszewo (Lübsow) in Poland. At the beginning of the 20th century, Germanic princely graves were discovered near Lubieszewo - furnished with Roman imported goods.

Remarks

↑ Ptolemy 2:11
↑ See Hermann Reichert : Mounition. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 20, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 3-11-017164-3 , pp. 269-270. ( 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

Hermann Reichert : Mounition. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 20, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 3-11-017164-3 , pp. 269-270. ( 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 , pp. 254-255.

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

[1] Ptolemy 2:11

[rga-2] See Hermann Reichert : Mounition. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 20, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 3-11-017164-3 , pp. 269-270. ( available for a fee via GAO , De Gruyter Online)

[3] 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 .