Tekelia

Location from Tekelia to Ptolemy

Tekelia ( Greek Τεκελία ; Latin Tecelia ) is a place name that Ptolemaios used in his Geographia set of coordinates created around 150 as one of the places (πόλεις) in northern Germania near the sea coast with a length of 31 ° 00 '( Ptolemaic degrees of longitude ) and 55 ° 00 '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 Tekelia in the area of Elsfleth-Hogenkamp , a place at the confluence of the Weser and Hunte rivers in Lower Saxony .

Remarks

↑ Ptolemy 2:11
↑ See Hermann Reichert : Tekelia. 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)
↑ 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 .

literature

Hermann Reichert : Tekelia. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 35, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-018784-7 , p. 89. ( payable 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 .

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] Ptolemy 2:11

[rga-2] See Hermann Reichert : Tekelia. 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 .