Phourgisatis

Location from Phourgisatis to Ptolemy

Phourgisatis , also Phrourgisatis or Frurgisatis ( Greek Φουργισατίς ; Latin Furgisatis ), is a place name that Ptolemaios created in his Geographia set of coordinates around 150 as one of the places (πόλεις) with 36 ° 00 in southern Germania near the Danube ' Longitude ( Ptolemaic longitudes ) and 48 ° 00' latitude are given. Phourgisatis is thus by Ptolemy between Abilounon and Kondorgis .

localization

The actual location of the place has not yet been clarified. The most diverse places come into question in literature. It has mainly been speculated that Phourgisatis is in Bohemia . Hermann Reichert, for example, states that, according to the geographical information, the closest Třísov to the Vltava is . Theodor Steche, however, suspects Phourgisatis in the area of the Marcomanni on the Vltava ( Moldau ). According to Emanuel Šimek , Phourgisatis lies on a route from Pöchlarn / Arelape to the mouth of the Oder on the watershed between Kamp and Naarn in the Weinsberg Forest in northern Lower Austria.

An interdisciplinary team of researchers led by Andreas Kleineberg, who re-examined and interpreted the Ptolemaic coordinates from 2006 to 2009, localized them on the basis of the transformation of the ancient coordinates at the time of Phourgisatis in the area of České Budějovice (Bohemian Budweis) , a city at the confluence of the Vltava rivers and Maltsch in South Bohemia in the Czech Republic . The Vltava rises in two source rivers: the Warm Vltava in the Bohemian Forest and the Cold Vltava in the Bavarian Forest , flows through the center of Prague and finally flows into the navigable Elbe at Mělník , the only river that drains the Bohemia, which is surrounded by low mountain ranges, to the North Sea.

Remarks

↑ Cf. Ptolemy 2, 11, 15
↑ ^a ^b Cf. Hermann Reichert : Ph (r) ourgisatis. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 23, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017535-5 , p. 142. ( payable via GAO , De Gruyter Online)
^ Theodor Steche : Old Germania in the geography book of Claudius Ptolemy . Leipzig 1937, p. 152.
↑ Emanuel Šimek : Velká Germanie Klaudia Ptolemaia, ΚΛΑΥ∆ΙΟΥ ΠΤΟΛΕ-ΜΑΙΟΥ ΜΕΓΑΛΗ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΑ . (= Spisy Filosofické Faculty Masarykovy University v Brně . Volume 47). Brno 1930-1953, p. 154 ff. And p. 166; in agreement Günther Christian Hansen : Ptolemaios . In: Joachim Herrmann (Ed.): Greek and Latin sources on the early history of Central Europe up to the middle of the 1st millennium of our time . Volume 3. Berlin 1991, pp. 553-589, here p. 581.
↑ 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 . , P. 59.

literature

Hermann Reichert : Ph (r) ourgisatis. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 23, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017535-5 , p. 142. ( payable 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 November 15, 2016.
Google Earth in ancient times. In: Der Spiegel. 39/2010, accessed November 15, 2016

[1] Cf. Ptolemy 2, 11, 15

[rga-2] Cf. Hermann Reichert : Ph (r) ourgisatis. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 23, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017535-5 , p. 142. ( payable via GAO , De Gruyter Online)

[3] Theodor Steche : Old Germania in the geography book of Claudius Ptolemy . Leipzig 1937, p. 152.

[4] Emanuel Šimek : Velká Germanie Klaudia Ptolemaia, ΚΛΑΥ∆ΙΟΥ ΠΤΟΛΕ-ΜΑΙΟΥ ΜΕΓΑΛΗ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΑ . (= Spisy Filosofické Faculty Masarykovy University v Brně . Volume 47). Brno 1930-1953, p. 154 ff. And p. 166; in agreement Günther Christian Hansen : Ptolemaios . In: Joachim Herrmann (Ed.): Greek and Latin sources on the early history of Central Europe up to the middle of the 1st millennium of our time . Volume 3. Berlin 1991, pp. 553-589, here p. 581.

[5] 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 . , P. 59.