Skourgon

Location from Skourgon to Ptolemy

Skourgon ( Greek Σκοῦργον ; Latin Scurgum ) is a place name that Ptolemaios used in his Geographia (Ptolemaios 2, 11, 12) set of coordinates as one of the places (πόλεις) in northern Germania , near the seashore 43 ° 00 'longitude ( Ptolemaic longitudes ) and 55 ° 00' north latitude. After Ptolemy, Skourgon lies inland between Rougion and Askaulis .

localization

Theodor Steche suggests locating Skourgon at a crossing over the Brda (Brahe) near Chojnice (Konitz) ^▼ in Pomerania . The Brda - which flows into the lower Vistula at Bydgoszcz - connects Skourgon with Askaulis, the next Ptolemaic place, which is safely located at Bydgoszcz (Osielsko ^▼ ). An interdisciplinary research team led by Andreas Kleineberg, who re-examined and interpreted the Ptolemaic coordinates from 2006 to 2009, transformed the ancient coordinates to Skourgon and, following Steche, localized the ancient site also in the area near Chojnice. Skourgon was therefore probably - according to Kleineberg and his team - on Hellweg , an important west-east route in Germania magna. 53.7 17.5553.183333 18.066667

According to Emanuel Šimek, Skourgon was a stop on a route from Carnuntum via Brigetio and Kalamantia to the mouth of the Vistula River in the Baltic Sea. Günther Christian Hansen, on the other hand, is looking for Skourgon near Skórcz (Skurz) in the Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland . Jan Nepomuk Sadowski's proposal, however, is to locate Skourgon near Czersk in West Prussia .

Remarks

↑ Book II, Chapter 10: Greater Germany (Fourth Map of Europe) . penelope.uchicago.edu. Retrieved October 31, 2019.
↑ See Hermann Reichert : Skourgon. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 29, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-018360-9 , pp. 26-27. ( available for a fee via GAO , De Gruyter Online)
^ Theodor Steche : Old Germania in the geography book of Claudius Ptolemy . Leipzig 1937, p. 148
^ ^A ^b Corinna Scheungraber, Friedrich E. Grünzweig: The old Germanic toponyms as well as ungermanic 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 , p. 303.
↑ 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 .
↑ See Emanuel Šimek: Velká Germanie Klaudia Ptolemaia . (= Spisy Filosofické Faculty Masarykovy University v Brne 38, 40, 47 and 49). Volume 3. Brno 1930–1953, p. 99 ff.
↑ Cf. 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.
↑ Jan Nepomuk Sadowski: The trade routes of the Greeks and Romans through the river area of the Oder, Vistula, Dniepr and Niemen to the shores of the Baltic Sea . Jena 1877, p. 57.

literature

Hermann Reichert : Skourgon. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 29, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-018360-9 , pp. 26-27. ( chargeable 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. 303-304.

Web links

Edition of Geographike Hyphegesis with translation and map of Germania magna , accessed on June 17, 2015
Google Earth in ancient times. In: Der Spiegel. 39/2010, accessed June 17, 2015

[1] Book II, Chapter 10: Greater Germany (Fourth Map of Europe) . penelope.uchicago.edu. Retrieved October 31, 2019.

[rga-2] See Hermann Reichert : Skourgon. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 29, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-018360-9 , pp. 26-27. ( available for a fee via GAO , De Gruyter Online)

[3] Theodor Steche : Old Germania in the geography book of Claudius Ptolemy . Leipzig 1937, p. 148

[top-4] A ^b Corinna Scheungraber, Friedrich E. Grünzweig: The old Germanic toponyms as well as ungermanic 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 , p. 303.

[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 .

[6] See Emanuel Šimek: Velká Germanie Klaudia Ptolemaia . (= Spisy Filosofické Faculty Masarykovy University v Brne 38, 40, 47 and 49). Volume 3. Brno 1930–1953, p. 99 ff.

[7] Cf. 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.

[8] Jan Nepomuk Sadowski: The trade routes of the Greeks and Romans through the river area of the Oder, Vistula, Dniepr and Niemen to the shores of the Baltic Sea . Jena 1877, p. 57.