Professor Dr. Rainer Wiegand, deputy chairman of the varus-Gesellschaft in Osnabrück eV speaks first "Kalkrieser" now also the possibility of First Legion in Kalkriese to: " Legio I Kalkriese in to a Ritz inscription on the mouth of a metal scabbard from Kalkriese, in: GA Lehmann, and R. Wiegand (Eds.), Roman presence and domination in the Germania of the Augustan period (Göttingen 20007, p. 89 ff) . What we had been properly concluded from the tank Close-inscriptions of AIUS, now finds most beautiful additional confirmation from further finds that need to be interpreted correctly held manipulative. However, it is extremely difficult to Prof. Wiegand, after the early establishment von1990/93 (along with Wilbers-Rost and Franzius) also now admit publicly what he has long been understood in principle: that the accumulation of I (Legio I) and the P (Legio Prima) Kalkrieser the findings do not mean cohort not Centurie - but Legion!
And that it also quite naturally explains the absence of Varian Legion reference is: The First Legion was in Kalkriese, but not the legions XVII, XVIII and XIX - no trace of it in spite of intensive research! So he published it in fact be highly personal contrast on page 1 and following of the "Varus-Kurier" (information for friends and supporters of the project Kalkriese, Varus battle in the Osnabrück area, Museum and Park, 12 Jg.-I/Dezember 2006) to calm his club members, or even his earlier statement: " In the fight with the Germans - I Cohors in Kalkriese " What a spiritual dislocation: must now Varus by order of the Kalkriese-Zitierkartells with the three legions XVII LEG, LEG XIIX (as the grave stone inscription Xanten) and LEG XIX (CI / 3 cohort, so on a sheet of Dangstetten) with only a first cohort (without Legion ID) and the Germanic tribes of Arminius fight.
long Wiegels is clear that the further I on a plumb line and the P (RIMA) to the mouth of a metal scabbard always mark the first legion, not the first cohort and first centuria. But Wiegels regrets: " is again called a legion cohors I, again - unfortunately - but without legion point for the relevant periods is not unusual for the notation P to prima. Instead of a point, what happened, for example, in a further Ritz inscription on a mouth plate of a sword scabbard Kalkriese in this form, there but probably the name of a legion, not a cohort served .
So there is still hope that scientific integrity against the manipulation of public opinion prevails.
Sincerely,
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Siegfried G. Schoppe
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