Phantom Germanicus

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.].