Nabalia

Location from Nabalia to Ptolemy

Nabalia , also Naualia ( Greek Ναυαλία ; Latin Navalia ) is a place name, which in the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemaios (2, 11, 13) as one of the places (πόλεις) lying further north in the interior of Germania with 27 ° 40ˈ longitude ( Ptolemaic degrees of longitude ) and 53 ° 15ˈ latitude or with 27 ° 50ˈ longitude and 53 ° 15ˈ latitude. According to Ptolemy, Nabalia lies between Askiborgion and Mediolanion . Because of the age of the spring, the existence of the settlement 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 Nabalia after the transformation of the ancient coordinates in the area near Essen-Hinsel in North Rhine-Westphalia . So Nabalia could have been a station on Hellweg .

Remarks

^ The Geography of Claudius Ptolemy: CAP. XI: Germaniae magnae situs (Europae tabula quarta) . penelope.uchicago.edu. Retrieved September 12, 2019.
^ Thomas Grünewald : Nabalia. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 20, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 3-11-017164-3 , pp. 477-478. ( chargeable via GAO , De Gruyter Online)
↑ 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. 45 .

literature

Thomas Grünewald : Nabalia. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 20, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 3-11-017164-3 , pp. 477-478. ( 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. 357-359.

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 on November 16, 2016, with map display

[1] The Geography of Claudius Ptolemy: CAP. XI: Germaniae magnae situs (Europae tabula quarta) . penelope.uchicago.edu. Retrieved September 12, 2019.

[rga-2] Thomas Grünewald : Nabalia. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 20, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 3-11-017164-3 , pp. 477-478. ( 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. 45 .