04-21-2011, 06:24 PM
There is an exhibition currently running about the legionary base at Strasbourg, focusing on three recently excavated sites, but with a much broader remit. The best bit from my point of view is the accompanying catalogue* (which you can pick up from Amazon in the UK, France, and Germany) which is rather good and in full colour. There are features on the sites mentioned (including a stonking set of bread ovens), the earlier work, Legio VIII, military equipment, and even the mythical image of the legionary.
I'd like to think I might be able to get to the exhibition before it closes at the end of 2011 (I haven't been to Strasbourg since 1982 when I was photographing the Rhineland tombstones), but if not the book is an acceptable substitute. Even if you don't read French, there are lots of nice pictures to look at ;-)
Mike Bishop
*Schnitzler, B. and Kuhnle, G. 2010: Strasbourg-Argentorate: Un camp légionnaire sur le Rhin (Ier au IVe siècle après J-C), Strasbourg
I'd like to think I might be able to get to the exhibition before it closes at the end of 2011 (I haven't been to Strasbourg since 1982 when I was photographing the Rhineland tombstones), but if not the book is an acceptable substitute. Even if you don't read French, there are lots of nice pictures to look at ;-)
Mike Bishop
*Schnitzler, B. and Kuhnle, G. 2010: Strasbourg-Argentorate: Un camp légionnaire sur le Rhin (Ier au IVe siècle après J-C), Strasbourg
