Riousiaoua

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Riousiaoua - in Latin Riusiava ; Greek  Ῥιουσιαούα - is a place name given in the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemaios as one of the places in the southern Germania magna in the west and along the Danube (πόλεις) with 31 ° 00 'longitude ( Ptolemaic longitudes ) and 47 ° 30' latitude becomes. According to Ptolemaios, Riousiaoua lies on the Danube between Arae Flaviae and Alkimoennis . 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.

Localization

In the first half of the 20th century, the provincial Roman researchers noted Robert Knorr on the thesis that Rißtissen comfortable with Riousiaoua be equated. The archaeologist Oscar Paret followed him in this hypothesis.

The prehistoric Rolf Nierhaus and the archaeologist Thomas Knopf turned against Knorr and Paret, they continued Riousiaoua with the in the 1st century BC. Celtic oppidum Heidengraben on the Swabian Alb near Grabenstetten in the Reutlingen district in Baden-Württemberg .

An interdisciplinary research team led by Andreas Kleineberg, who re-examined the information provided by Ptolemy, confirms Nierhaus and Knopf by connecting Riousiaoua with the Heidengraben near Grabenstetten using the transformed ancient coordinates.

The prehistoric archaeologist Sabine Rieckhoff rejects the Heidengraben thesis because the "ancient history-philologically oriented research" "contrary to the archaeological findings" adheres to the connection between Riousiaoua and the Heidengraben near Grabenstetten. In her remarks, she also did not agree to equating it with cracks.

Etymological

Albrecht Greule equates the name with the river name Riß , which appears in the oldest mentions as Riussaiam (anno 1293). According to Greule, this form probably goes back to a Germanic Riusiava . A West Indo-European, pre-Germanic river name may exist for Greule, which was evidently transferred to the place name.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Ptolemy, Geographia 2,11,15
  2. ^ Hermann Reichert :  Riousiaoua. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 25, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017733-1 , pp. 25–28, ( 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". Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24525-3 , p. 59; Květ - Řehák 2002, p. 57.
  4. ↑ Sabine Rieckhoff: Where did you go? - On the archaeological evidence of the Celts in southern Germany in the 1st century BC Chr. In: Celtic ideas on the Danube. Files of the fourth symposium of German-speaking Celtologists. Linz / Danube, 17. – 21. July 2005. Konrad Spindler (1939–2005) in memory. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. ISBN 3700136706 . P. 429.
  5. ^ Corinna Scheungraber, Friedrich E. Grünzweig: The old Germanic toponyms and un-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. 61–64.
  6. ^ Albrecht Greule: Riusiava, Riss and Reuss . In: Blätter für Oberdeutsche Namenforschung, 19th year 1982, pp. 6–7.

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