08-25-2010, 06:47 PM
Josh,
1. ... in these times aother part of archeology is gaining momentum: the archeology of the mines. IIRC some european scholars are in the process of chalking up a list of "spectrographic footprint" of metals/oars found/to be found in certain areas, so it will be easier to spot the whereabouts of roman metal finds.
2. There has been an area of leadsmelting near Soest (D) securely attributed to roman times.
3. In a roman ship found in the delta of river rhone in France there have been lead bars stamped with something like "plumbum germanicum".
4. I can't recall exactly how the ship was dated.
5. Emperor Caracalla (188-217) embarked on a "Germanica expeditio" in 213 AD, reviewed quite infavourably by historian Cassius Dio Cocceianus (ca. 163 - ca. 229 AD) in his 80 volumes of Roman History, being more or less a contemporary of his.
[url:2du2ga3j]http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/home.html[/url]
especially here:
[url:2du2ga3j]http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/78*.html[/url] >>>> Verse 13 and 14. (Antoninus = Caracalla, Full Title as Emperor: Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus [Pius Felix] Augustus)
German Scholar and Epigraphic Dr. Andreas Hensen proved Cassius Dio right in that this campaign was more like "flogging a dead horse" (If I may "condense" his writings in EPOC 2/2010 (In German), lasting (at most) from earliest 11th of August to (latest) 6th of October 213AD, that means less than 2 months for ROME-FRONT(Near the german river Main) -ROME --- a very tight schedule for a triumphant war, to put it mildly.
(Rock musicians , if they had such in those times, would most probably have called this "emperor-posing" :wink: )
6. As Kalefeld/Harzhorn and other findingplaces deep inside Germany show -- there may be still a surprise or two "lingering in the woods".
Greez
Simplex
1. ... in these times aother part of archeology is gaining momentum: the archeology of the mines. IIRC some european scholars are in the process of chalking up a list of "spectrographic footprint" of metals/oars found/to be found in certain areas, so it will be easier to spot the whereabouts of roman metal finds.
2. There has been an area of leadsmelting near Soest (D) securely attributed to roman times.
3. In a roman ship found in the delta of river rhone in France there have been lead bars stamped with something like "plumbum germanicum".
4. I can't recall exactly how the ship was dated.
5. Emperor Caracalla (188-217) embarked on a "Germanica expeditio" in 213 AD, reviewed quite infavourably by historian Cassius Dio Cocceianus (ca. 163 - ca. 229 AD) in his 80 volumes of Roman History, being more or less a contemporary of his.
[url:2du2ga3j]http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/home.html[/url]
especially here:
[url:2du2ga3j]http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/78*.html[/url] >>>> Verse 13 and 14. (Antoninus = Caracalla, Full Title as Emperor: Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus [Pius Felix] Augustus)
German Scholar and Epigraphic Dr. Andreas Hensen proved Cassius Dio right in that this campaign was more like "flogging a dead horse" (If I may "condense" his writings in EPOC 2/2010 (In German), lasting (at most) from earliest 11th of August to (latest) 6th of October 213AD, that means less than 2 months for ROME-FRONT(Near the german river Main) -ROME --- a very tight schedule for a triumphant war, to put it mildly.
(Rock musicians , if they had such in those times, would most probably have called this "emperor-posing" :wink: )
6. As Kalefeld/Harzhorn and other findingplaces deep inside Germany show -- there may be still a surprise or two "lingering in the woods".
Greez
Simplex
Siggi K.
