Zur Münzdatierung des Kohortenkastells Saalburg

Abstract

When the earth fort on the Saalburg was levelled and the first cohort fort built was the subject of a controversy: Peter Robert Franke moved from the year 119 or 121, previously assumed, to 135/136, while Wilhelm Schleiermacher pointed to flaws in the argument and declared for 125 to 128. What is at stake is less the date itself than the historical conclusions, above all whether the development of the Limes in Upper Germany followed immediately on Hadrian's visit, some years later, or only at the end of his reign. The author worked through the inventory card index and the excavation diaries of Heinrich Jacobi at the Saalburg museum for the find spots and established that they sometimes give different information from the publications, and precisely for the decisive coins.

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Suggested citation

Ritter, Hans-Werner: Zur Münzdatierung des Kohortenkastells Saalburg. In: Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 13 (1963), pp. 71–74.

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