Tablis

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Tablis or Tablae was a Roman settlement in the province of Germania Inferior on the road from Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum ( Nijmegen ) to Lugdunum Batavorum ( Katwijk ). In the current state structure, the place is to be found in the Dutch province of South Holland .

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Tablis on the Tabula Peutingeriana

Tablis can be found on the Tabula Peutingeriana , originally from the third century . The Tabula Peutingeriana shows the situation in the early third century CE, when there was a road connection from Noviomagus Batavorum, the capital of the Batavian Civitas , to Forum Hadriani , the capital of the Cananefaten Civitas , which continued from the latter to Lugdunum Batavorum , the westernmost settlement on the Rhine. This road largely followed the course of the Waal and Maas , which are shown on the Peutinger map as a river with the name Patabus (a spelling or a spelling or copying error of Batavus). Tablis was one of the stops along this road, at a distance of twelve Leugen (around 26.5 km) from Caspingum and 18 Leugen (around 40 km) from Flenio . It is possible that Tablis was a statio , a Roman state stopping point on the Cursus publicus , where couriers or travelers could eat, bathe, spend the night and change their horses.

Localization attempts

Apart from the mention on the Peutinger map, no concrete archaeological or historical references to the location of Tablis have been found so far. The French cartographer Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville from the 18th century suspected Tablis in Oud-Alblas because of the similarity of names . In Oud-Alblas, traces of Roman settlement have indeed been found, as well as possible remains of a Roman road. An alternative hypothesis is that Tablis was near Mijnsheerenland . This theory is mainly based on the assumption that caspingium, which Bourguignon d'Anville suspected in Asperen , should have been located near the Meuse, possibly in today's Biesbosch . Based on this theory, Tablis should have been further south, at the confluence of the Striene (possibly an old branch of the Scheldt and Meuse). It is noticeable, however, that the distance on the Peutinger map does not correspond to the distance between Vlaardingen and either Oud-Alblas or Mijnsheerenland. The only place that could still be considered would be Alblasserdam . A Roman settlement was also found there.

literature

  • Paul van der Heijden: Onderzoek naar de Lokatie van de zuidelijke route op de Tabula Peutingeriana . Nijmegen 1997 ( digitized version ), with a detailed bibliography.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tab. Peut. Segment II, 2
  2. ↑ a b Paul van der Heijden: Onderzoek naar de Lokatie van de Zuidelijke route op de Tabula Peutingeriana . Nijmegen 1997 ( digitized version ), with a detailed bibliography.
  3. ^ Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville: Notice de l'ancienne Gaule. Tirée des monumens romains . Parijs, Desaint & Saillant & Durand, Paris 1740, p. 629, digitized on Google Books .
  4. ↑ a b G. van den Beemt: Iets over de Romeinse nederzetting in Alblasserdam . Westerheem 26, 1967, pp. 137-148.
  5. ↑ BH Stolte: De Zuidelijke off van de Peutinger door het land of the Batavians . In: Reports van de Rijksdienst voor het Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek 9, 1959, pp. 57-67.
  6. ↑ TM Buijtendorp: Forum Hadriani. De vergeten stad van Hadrianus. Ontwikkeling, uiterlijk en betekenis van het 'Nederlands Pompeji' . Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, digitized