Teuderion

Teuderion , in Latin Teuderium ( Greek  Τευδέριον ) is a place name that, in the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemaios, is one of the places (πόλεις) lying further north in the interior of Germania with 29 ° 20 ′ longitude ( Ptolemaic degrees of longitude ) and 53 ° 20 ′ latitude or 29 ° 30ˈ longitude and 54 ° 00 ′ latitude are given. According to Ptolemy, Teuderion lies between Mediolanum and Bogadion . Because of the age of the source, the existence of the place around 150 AD can be assumed.

So far the place could not be located safely. An interdisciplinary research team led by Andreas Kleineberg, who re-examined the information given by Ptolemy, is currently locating Teuderion according to the transformed ancient coordinates near today's Beelen in North Rhine-Westphalia . Through an urn find in the Hörster farmers in 1928, Germanic pits from the time AD 100–150 were found in Beelen.

Remarks

1. ^ Ptolemy, Geographia ( 2, 11, 13 )
2. ↑ See Hermann Reichert :  Teuderion. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 35, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-018784-7 , pp. 98-99, ( 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 Buchgesell., Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24525-3 , p. 46.

literature

• Hermann Reichert :  Teuderion. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 35, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-018784-7 , pp. 98-99, ( 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. 334–335.
• Alfred Franke : Τευδέριον. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume V, A, Stuttgart 1893ff., Col. 1128 f.

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