Prodentia

Prodentia
Greek Surname	Προδεντία
Lat. Surname	Prodentia
Polis	81. Polis in Germania magna
ptol. climate	Ptolemaic Climate IV (Danube Zone)
ptol. map	Germania magna
Dating	around 150 AD
ptol. length	33 ° 45 ′
ptol. width	48 ° 00 ′
River system	Danube
Location after Kleineberg	in the area of Donauwörth in Swabia in Bavaria
Polis before	Bibakon
Polis afterwards	Setouakoton

Prodentia - in Latin Prodentia ; Greek  Προδεντία - is a place name, which is given in the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemaios as one of the places in the west of the southern Germania magna and along the Danube (πόλεις) with 33 ° 45 'longitude ( Ptolemaic longitudes ) and 48 ° 00' latitude . According to Ptolemy, Prodentia lies on the Danube between Bibakon and Setouakoton . Because of the age of the source, the existence of the place around 150 AD can be assumed. So far, the ancient site is not considered to be safely localized.

An interdisciplinary research team led by Andreas Kleineberg, who re-examined the information provided by Ptolemy, localized Prodentia using the transformed ancient coordinates in the area of Donauwörth in Swabia in Bavaria .

Donauwörth at the confluence of the Wörnitz into the Danube was an important Danube crossing in the Roman road network at the end of the Via Claudia Augusta in ancient times . In the first two centuries after Christ was the Via Claudia Augusta, the main link between northern Italy and the western foothills of the Alps, which established the connection to the Limes Country and the Donaunord- or Donausüdstraße maintained the connection to the Roman provinces.

Remarks

1. ↑ Ptolemy, Geographia 2,11,15
2. ^ Hermann Reichert :  Prodentia. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 23, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017535-5 , pp. 477–478, ( paid for 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". Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24525-3 , p. 58.
4. ↑ The Via Claudia Augusta and the Donausüdstraße were linked to one another near the Danube near Mertingen .
5. ↑ Wolfgang Czysz, Karlheinz Dietz, Thomas Fischer, Hans-Jörg Kellner (eds.): The Romans in Bavaria . Stuttgart 1995, p. 532.

literature

• Hermann Reichert :  Prodentia. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 23, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017535-5 , pp. 477–478, ( paid for 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 , pp. 275-276.

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