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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
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Hi Mike,
thanks for bringing this book to my attention ......
..... and of course you may order it from there:
http://www.musees.strasbourg.eu/index.php?page=nouveautes
(Vive La France !!!:mrgreen: )
I visited this museum last time in 2008. I was impressed, and even more so with their
moderate entrance fees of 5,--€ --- compare that to german exhibitions of that scale where you'd customarily pay more than 10,-- €.
The same goes for the books.
I bought :
1)Strassbourg -- Fouilles Archeologiques De La Ligne B Du Tram, 2000, paperback
(for 7,-- €, used to be 13,-- €)
Which deals with the construction of their large-scale tram project they build in the 90's and especially the archeological finds/findings that came along with it.
2)Strassbourg -- 10 Ans d'archeologie urbaine, 1994, 218 pp, paperback
This deals with the urban archeology in Strassbourg and its suburbs from about 1985 on.
(That went for 7,--€, too)
Both books are well made, print-wise , with clear pics and graphics/plans, the type of letters used is comforting elderly folks like me. 
The 25,-- € & p&p that the Strassbourg Museum is charging for the new 156 pp-book you mentioned, is not outrageously high, methinks.
So this one's on my list. And I may show up at Strassbourg again this summer.
Greez & Thanks
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Does anyone perhaps know of plumbatae from the Strasbourg museum? I know of one, but perhaps more have turned up since?
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Bad link, Simplex.
http://www.musees.strasbourg.eu/index.php
That gets you to a main page, but since I don't read French, I am not sure what to do next. Helps?
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Quote:Bad link, Simplex.
http://www.musees.strasbourg.eu/index.php
That gets you to a main page, but since I don't read French, I am not sure what to do next. Helps?
Here is the exhibition web site, and there is an English summary here for those who weren't paying attention when the rest of us were learning about la plume de ma tante. :roll:
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Sorry folks,
...... tried to do "all things in one go" again ......:oops:
(Live's too short for all "essential" things :wink: )
....and, Mike ....I couldn't have said it better :mrgreen:
(Thanks!)
Greez
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Well, Mike, at least I learned how to say "mayonnaise, c'est vous plait". :lol:
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Quote:Does anyone perhaps know of plumbatae from the Strasbourg museum? I know of one, but perhaps more have turned up since?
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O.K. I needed a year's time to get my hands on the book.
Paperback-bound , but definitely no "quick-flying-leaf" kind.
25 € ?! Yes definitely worth it, with some minor cautions.
For it :
1. Definitely good at honing yer frech reading skills. :mrgreen:
2. It's kind of an extended guide to the Straßburg during the roman
era.
And a bit beyond that if it's needed.
3. It's the most recent "state-of-the-art" on that subject,
more inclined to everyday life of the legionaries.
4. The development of the legionary fortress and or a curriculum vita
of it's household legio the Leg VIII Aug is sufficiently dealt with,
comparisons to similar garrisons taken like Mirebeau (where the VIII was
stationed before), Mainz and Windisch.
5. The informations on barracks dealt with here are more in-depth than I expected.
That said:
The authors cannot help but confront the public with the difficulties they
had gaining "enlightenment" in a city that had a grand and vivid life from the
beginning of the middle-ages to its end -- and beyond.
The shortcomings (?) :roll:
Given the prolificient building and rebuilding of its estates during the times,
the excavators were confonted with the fact that medieval traces
cut deeply into the "running-horizons" of late antiquity, sometimes
mixing finds from different eras in one stratum, sometimes really
annihilating (not quite the proverbial translation on my side here,
but this expession hits the situation "dead-center") complete layers.
So -- no plumbata mentioned here, but at least some finds from the "high-empire".
Yes, and I was a little bit disappointed from their reasoning about the late empire --
they don't take into account that the Notitia Dignitatum is more or less dealing
with the times after 400 AD here, don't they ?
All in all : a good read even considering the fact that the sub-lines to the pictures
and tables are tilted 90° towards the other lines of text.
For most parts more interesting for beginners than experts.
I definitely should not have missed that exhibition, -- but unfortunately -- I did.
Greez
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Quote:Vortigern Studies post=287453 Wrote:Does anyone perhaps know of plumbatae from the Strasbourg museum? I know of one, but perhaps more have turned up since?
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I was there in 2008 (too) and didn't see it. I photographed every metal bit they had on show the best I could, I will search the photos for it.
In Basel you can see the one from Augst, I'm sure of that.
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Quote: I was there in 2008 (too) and didn't see it. I photographed every metal bit they had on show the best I could, I will search the photos for it.
Thanks Iagoba!
Quote:In Basel you can see the one from Augst, I'm sure of that.
Yes, I've seen that one.
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