Ouebion

Ouebion - in Latin Vebium , also Usbium ; ( Greek  Οὐέβιον ) - is a place name given in the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemaios as one of the places (πόλεις) lying in the southern Germania magna and along the Danube with 35 ° longitude ( Ptolemaic longitudes ) and 47 ° latitude. According to Ptolemy, Ouebion lies on the Danube between Setouakoton and Abilouon . Because of the age of the source, the existence of the place around 150 AD can be assumed.

So far the place could not be located safely. An interdisciplinary research team led by Andreas Kleineberg, who re-examined the information provided by Ptolemy, locates Ouebion on the basis of the transformed ancient coordinates on the Danube and near today's Linz , Steyregg or Mauthausen in Upper Austria .

He quickly thinks it is possible that during the reading Vebium an initial s - has been lost and the place name means * Suebium - a place name after the popular name Suebi , in whose area the place would have to be searched for according to the Ptolemaic indication.

Remarks

1. ↑ Ptolemy, Geographia 2,11,15
2. ^ Hermann Reichert :  Ouebion. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 22, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017351-4 , pp. 407-409, (for a fee via GAO , De Gruyter Online).
3. ^ 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 , p. 59; Theodor Steche 1937, p. 176; Květ - Řehák 2002, p. 51.
4. ^ Gerhard Rasch: X. Uncertainly traditional place names . In: Gerhard Rasch: Ancient geographical names north of the Alps . With a contribution by Hermann Reichert: "Germania in the view of Ptolemy". (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde , supplementary volume 47), Verlag Walter De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, S. chargeable via GAO , De Gruyter Online.

literature

• Hermann Reichert :  Ouebion. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 22, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017351-4 , pp. 407-409, (for a fee via GAO , De Gruyter Online).
• Hermann Reichert :  Vebium. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 22, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017351-4 , p. 86, (for a fee 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, ( 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 , p. 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 November 16, 2016