Ambisontes
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: H. Bender Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: H. Bender Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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May 03, 2015 11:34 AM
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History
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 19 E2 Ambisontes
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/187280
47.5, 12.5
- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (30 BC - AD 300)
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- Ambisontes (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
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people, tribe (historical cultural group)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 19 E2 Ambisontes
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: upper R. Salzach
H. Bender, G. Moosbauer, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, M. Puhane, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Ambisontes: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2015 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/187280> [accessed: 10 December 2023]
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Plin. HN 3.137.4 and CIL V 7817 almost certainly refer to another
tribe located more to the west, maybe somewhere in the upper Inn valley roughly around Pfunds (https://goo.gl/maps/oQGLfbWUFNL2) or Landeck (https://goo.gl/maps/9sXRLFGwAjS2). For detailed argumentation see
Lücke, S.: s.v. “Tropaeum Alpium”, in: VA-de 18/2, Methodologie, http://dx.doi.org/10.5282/verba-alpina?urlappend=%3Fpage_id%3D493%26db%3D182%26letter%3DT%2399