Setouakoton

Setouakoton - in Latin Setuacotum ; Greek  Σετουάκωτον - is a place name that is given in the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemaios as one of the places in the south of the Germania magna along the Danube (πόλεις) with 34 ° 00 'longitude ( Ptolemaic longitudes ) and 48 ° 20' latitude. According to Ptolemy, Setouakoton lies on the Danube between Prodentia and Ouebion . 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, uses the transformed ancient coordinates to locate Setouakoton near Treuchtlingen in Bavaria , which shows traces of Roman and Celtic settlement.

Remarks

1. ↑ Ptolemy, Geographia 2,11,15
2. ^ Hermann Reichert :  Setouakoton. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 28, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-018207-6 , pp. 224–227, ( 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. ↑ Wolfgang Czysz, Karlheinz Dietz, Thomas Fischer, Hans-Jörg Kellner (eds.): The Romans in Bavaria . Stuttgart 1995, pp. 524-525.

literature

• Hermann Reichert :  Setouakoton. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 28, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-018207-6 , pp. 224–227, ( 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. 309-310.

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