page_title: Kriemhildenstuhl
section_title: Inscriptions and drawings
hierarchical_section_title: Kriemhildenstuhl / Excavation history / Recent excavations / Inscriptions and drawings
caption_attribution_description: English: Detail in the quarry of Bad Dürkheim, probably a sign of a unit of the 22nd Roman Legion Deutsch: Detail Kriemhildenstuhl bei Bad Dürkheim. Vermutlich war das dargestellte Pferd das Zeichen einer Einheit der 22. römischen Legion, die den Steinbruch betrieb.
context_page_description: The Kriemhildenstuhl, more rarely Krimhildenstuhl, in the forests around the Palatine county town of Bad Dürkheim in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, is an old Roman quarry, which was worked by the 22nd Legion of the Roman Army, who were stationed in Mogontiacum around 200 A. D.
  The site has been designated as an area monument and is owned by the Drachenfels Club.
context_section_description: Because the lower levels of the quarry filled up with waste material during the quarrying operations, the traces of Roman tools and inscriptions and drawings here were very well preserved.
  Work inscriptions
  (angulus) Aici = Arbeitskopf of the Aicus
  (H)ostili Geniali angulus Quin(ti) Purpurionis = To Hostilis Genialis (is allocated) the Arbeitskopf of Quintus Purpurio
  (angulus) Septimi VI id Aug = (Arbeitskopf) of the Septimus (handed over) on 8 August
  Legion inscriptions
  I(ovi) O(ptimo) M(aximo)/ET GENIO/I(m)PERATORE/LVC(Lucio) SEPTIMO/SEVERO VEX(i)L(latio) L(egionis) XXII P(iae) F(idelis) = Dedication to Jupiter and the Genius of the Emperor Septimius Severus by the division of the 22nd Legion, the upright and true
  ob m(emoriam) Dat(ivi) Pr(o)c(uli) S(igniferi) = in memory of the standard bearer, Dativus Proculus
  Natalis m(iles) l(egionis) XXII p(iae) f(idelis) = Natalis, soldier of the 22nd Legion, the upright and true
  Vog(e)llin(us) Perpet(uus) Leg(ionis) XXII P(iae) = Vogellinus Perpetuus, (member of) the 22nd Legion, the upright
  Gettonius/Ursus Dossus(S)/LE LEG XXII A/LEG XXII P PF = Gettonius, Ursus and Dossus, soldiers of the Legio XXII Antoniniana(?) Legio XXII p(rimigeniae) p(iae) f(idelis) 22nd Legion, the foremost, true and upright
  Drawings
  There are drawings of horses, which may be the symbol of the unit working here, as well as drawings of men, phalli and vulvas. Whether the sexual symbols were aspects of a pagan cult or more like present-day toilet graffiti is difficult to determine.
  The wheel symbols and swastikas could be religious symbols or just workers' marks.
caption: One of the horse pictures
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