Waluburg

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Waluburg was a Germanic seer or fortune teller from the Semnones tribe who served in a Roman army camp in Egypt in the 2nd century.

Your name was discovered in an inscription on a shard from the Nile island Elephantine by Wilhelm Schubart and was first scientifically received by him in 1917. On the outside of the approximately 13 × 10 cm large pottery shard, there is ten lines of Greek text with the typeface that allows the inscription to be dated to the 2nd century. Line eight reads:

"Βα̣λουβουργ Σήνονι σιβύλλᾳ"

"Waluburg, seer from the tribe of the Semnones."

The name of the Waluburg appears in the correct rendering of the Germanic dative ending, whereas Σήνονι σιβύλλᾳ shows the Greek case ending . It is unknown how she got into Egypt. Since Waluburg's entry is the last after several names of Roman and Greco-Egyptian soldiers and civil servants, it is assumed that Waluburg was a salaried recipient in the lower services. For the circumstance of their presence in Egypt an enslavement after a deportation from (inner) Germania and a subsequent transfer is suspected.

Surname

The name of the Waluburg is made up of two parts based on the type of Germanic personal names. In general, the name Waluburg, as with the other traditional seers ( Albruna, Ganna, Veleda ) , is based on a descriptive functional epithet , based on the cultic-magical activity and position of the seers within Germanic societies.

The first link walu from Germanic * waluz for "stick" from Indo-European * uel- for "turn, turn" (Latin uallus = "stick"). Walu- is a common property in Germania and is evidenced by Gothic walus , Old Norse vǫlr and, among other things , Old Frisian walu-bera for "rod bearer". The staff is an attribute and symbol of the "profession" (Simek) and an instrument of the magical and mantic practices of the Germanic seers.

The second link -burg is significant in terms of linguistic history, since burg germanic * burȝz has not yet been documented in personal names before the 7th century. Assumptions represented by the inscriptions form Senones Celtic strain of senones is to read the person's name is corrected as prescribed by the Germanizität. Furthermore, based on an assumed Celticity of the personal name, for example, burg is Celtic as borc, borgg is first documented as a medieval borrowing from Middle Latin burgus .

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  1. ↑ SB III 6221 (Heidelberg Complete Directory of the Greek Papyrus Documents of Egypt)
personal data
SURNAME Waluburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Germanic seer
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century or 2nd century
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century or 3rd century