01-12-2012, 12:00 AM
Hi John,
... since this dolabra came up amongst other parts from roman times -- in an area where more roman finds were made > "found in a field" ( farming area),I think we can call this "found in situ".
German newspaper "Die Welt" just put more news online - a bit more substantial than the others I had linked before. On top of the other informations the names of the two chief excavators that made this find were given: Michael Brangs and Thorsten Schwarz.
Both were also the first (official)ones to excavate here in 2008. They are portrayed in the movie about the Harzhorn digs I reviewed elsewhere in this forum.
http://www.welt.de/kultur/article1381034...ation.html
(With a roundup of the pics available.)
Taking that into account I'm not under the expression they could be incompetent or be inclined to braggery. (O.K. , we all know -- "when Hollywood steps in" > :roll: , yes ?! :mrgreen: )
I think we can trust them . ;-)
The "Welt" also goes on to mention "a multiple of 2000 finds already made".
That said -- back to further informations:
This press-note goes on to relate to a roman gravestone/"kenotaph"(?) found in Speyer/Germany, mentioning a certain Aurelius Vitalis, member of the LEGIIII Flavia as "agens expeditione Germaniae, hitherto attributed to a participation in one of Caracalla's expeditions. (* > "Römer in Rheinland-Pfalz" 1990 S.117)
(That one of 213 AD -- aka as "a case of Emperor Posing" :wink: !)
The newspaper then goes on to state that most parts of Germania Magna meant no "terra incognita" to the romans as e.g. Ptolemaios showed in his geographic papers -- they give a short hint to the book on "new findings about the Ptolemaic papers" we discusses elsewhere here.
Another newsline from the Göttinger Tageblatt just popped up:
http://www.goettinger-tageblatt.de/Nachr...m-Harzhorn
getting more specific on the full text of the dolabra-inscription, probably readable as:
LEGIIII F S A (= Flaviana Severiana Alexandriana) referring to Maximinus Thrax predecessor Severus Alexander.
Ahhh, yes ---- there will be a "Landesausstellung/state exhibition" about the Harzhorn
in 2013 -- at Braunschweig.
http://www.landesmuseum-bs.de/
(No informations given here, yet -- referring just for the impatient ones, here :mrgreen: )
Waiting on still more information.
Greez
Siggi
... since this dolabra came up amongst other parts from roman times -- in an area where more roman finds were made > "found in a field" ( farming area),I think we can call this "found in situ".
German newspaper "Die Welt" just put more news online - a bit more substantial than the others I had linked before. On top of the other informations the names of the two chief excavators that made this find were given: Michael Brangs and Thorsten Schwarz.
Both were also the first (official)ones to excavate here in 2008. They are portrayed in the movie about the Harzhorn digs I reviewed elsewhere in this forum.
http://www.welt.de/kultur/article1381034...ation.html
(With a roundup of the pics available.)
Taking that into account I'm not under the expression they could be incompetent or be inclined to braggery. (O.K. , we all know -- "when Hollywood steps in" > :roll: , yes ?! :mrgreen: )
I think we can trust them . ;-)
The "Welt" also goes on to mention "a multiple of 2000 finds already made".
That said -- back to further informations:
This press-note goes on to relate to a roman gravestone/"kenotaph"(?) found in Speyer/Germany, mentioning a certain Aurelius Vitalis, member of the LEGIIII Flavia as "agens expeditione Germaniae, hitherto attributed to a participation in one of Caracalla's expeditions. (* > "Römer in Rheinland-Pfalz" 1990 S.117)
(That one of 213 AD -- aka as "a case of Emperor Posing" :wink: !)
The newspaper then goes on to state that most parts of Germania Magna meant no "terra incognita" to the romans as e.g. Ptolemaios showed in his geographic papers -- they give a short hint to the book on "new findings about the Ptolemaic papers" we discusses elsewhere here.
Another newsline from the Göttinger Tageblatt just popped up:
http://www.goettinger-tageblatt.de/Nachr...m-Harzhorn
getting more specific on the full text of the dolabra-inscription, probably readable as:
LEGIIII F S A (= Flaviana Severiana Alexandriana) referring to Maximinus Thrax predecessor Severus Alexander.
Ahhh, yes ---- there will be a "Landesausstellung/state exhibition" about the Harzhorn
in 2013 -- at Braunschweig.
http://www.landesmuseum-bs.de/
(No informations given here, yet -- referring just for the impatient ones, here :mrgreen: )
Waiting on still more information.
Greez
Siggi
Siggi K.
