Re: Kossack's Conclusions

From: tgpedersen
Message: 55502
Date: 2008-03-18

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
>
>
> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> This
> >
> http://www.novaroma.de/nr/provincia/karten/limes2.htm
> > implies the last version was built under Antoninus
> > Pius.
> > BTW, check the color codes and the corresponding
> > periods of the
> > various castella; it seems there are traces of
> > Drusus' castella too in
> > the Wetterau (it's easier to make that out by the
> > numbers than by the
> > colors).
>
> ****GK: Perhaps n. 8 and 9 near Wetzlar on the Lan.
> Maybe ns. 5,6,7 near Friedberg.****
>

BTW on the subject of Roman activities in the Wetterau:

The legatus Gajus Silius, who participated in the war on the Chatti
under Germanicus
http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/tac/a02000.htm
somehow lost a complete drinking set which ended up in Hoby on Lolland
in Demark. Silius' name is inscribed in the bottom of the two cups in
the front.
http://www.natmus.dk/sw22086.asp
I've mentioned the Hoby find before.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/11445

Torsten