Phantom Germanicus

de Stefan Burmeister, Salvatore Ortisi

For nearly 30 years there have been annual excavations at Kalkriese, the site of Varus' defeat in A.D. 9. The volume contains 14 papers presented at a symposium at VARUSSCHLACHT im Osnabrücker Land gGmbH - Museum und Park Kalkriese, which was held in the context of the temporary exhibition "ICH GERMANICUS! Feldherr Priester Superstar" in July 2015. A foreword by the editors is followed by contributions on the ancient written sources [Wiegels], Germanicus' campaigns [Kehne], Rome's military reaction to Varus' defeat [Burmeister, Kaestner], on the military camp, battlefield, and civil settlement [Rasbach], the bone pits at Oberesch [Rost, Wilbers-Rost], the chronologies of the cemetery at Haltern and of the Early Imperial campaigns in Germania [Berke], the "Germanicus horizon" in Samian ware [Rudnick] and coins [Werz], new thoughts on Waldgirmes, Haltern, Kalkriese etc. [Wigg-Wolf], Germanicus on the Upper Rhine [Martin], latest countermarks on non-ferrous metal coins from Kalkriese [Wolters], landscape change in the Ems estuary around the birth of Christ [Siegmüller], and Romano-Germanic contacts at the Hunte estuary [Folkers et al.].