Alta Ripa(100 words)
[German version]
Today Altrip near Speyer. ‘Bell-shaped’, fort with its long side facing the Rhine from the Valentinian period (Cod. Theod. 11,31,4, AD 369) part of the fortress system of the Neckar confluence (Not. Dign. occ. 39; cf. the fortifications providing safe shipping, Symm. Or. 2,20 [1]). Destroyed in the New Year's night of AD 406/7 by Alani, Suebi and Vands.
Castellum
Dietz, Karlheinz (Würzburg)
Bibliography
1 A. Pabst, 1989, 147 f., 332 ff.
S. V. Schnurbein, H.-J. Köhler, Der neue Plan des valentinianischen Kastells A. (Altrip), in: BRGK 70, 1989, 507-526
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Dietz, Karlheinz (Würzburg),
“Alta Ripa”, in:
Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry.
Consulted online on 18 January 2021 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e116520>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510
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