Siatoutanda

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Location from Siatoutanda to Ptolemy

Siatoutanda ( Greek  Σιατουτάνδα ; Latin Siatutanda ) is a place name used by Ptolemaios in his Geographia (Ptolemaios 2, 11, 12) set of coordinates created around 150 as one of the places (πόλεις) in northern Germania , near the sea ​​coast , namely as the second westernmost place between Flevum and Tekelia with 29 ° 20 'longitude ( Ptolemaic longitudes ) and 54 ° 20' latitude.

localization

So far, according to Ptolemy, the place in Germania magna could not be reliably located. An interdisciplinary research team led by Andreas Kleineberg, who re-examined and interpreted the Ptolemaic coordinates from 2006 to 2009, is currently locating Siatoutanda in the area near Lathen in Emsland in Lower Saxony .

Remarks

  1. Book II, Chapter 10: Greater Germany (Fourth Map of Europe) ( English ) penelope.uchicago.edu. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
  2. See Hermann ReichertSiatoutanda. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 28, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-018207-6 , p. 265 ( available for a fee from GAO , De Gruyter Online)
  3. 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 .

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