Ambisontes

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: H. Bender

Contributors: G. Moosbauer, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, M. Puhane, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott

Last modified Oct 13, 2024 04:01 PM — History

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 19 E2 Ambisontes

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/187280

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
47.5, 12.5

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (30 BC - AD 300)

Names:

Ethnic Names:
- Ambisontes (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)

Ambisontes makes connections with:

None

Ambisontes receives connections from:

None

Place type:
people, tribe (historical cultural group)

References:

Evidence:

Plin., NH (Mayhoff: PHI) 3.137.4

See Further:

Related:

Wikidata Ambisontes (Q5672081)

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 19 E2 Ambisontes

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: upper R. Salzach

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Suggested citation:
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, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/187280> [accessed: 17 December 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/187280 |title=Places: 187280 (Ambisontes) |author=Bender, H. |accessdate=December 17, 2024 8:43 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

Stephan Luecke says:

Jan 17, 2019 03:50 AM

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