Near the village of Etzgen were three watchtowers on the Rhine, at localities Sandrüti, Hauensteiner Fähre, and Rote Waag. All remains have been destroyed. From Rote Waag comes an inscription from 371 AD, discovered in 1892 during the construction of the railway.
[S]ALVIS DDD NNN (dominis nostris tribus)
VALENTINIANO
[Va]LENTE ET GRATIANO
[Victo]R(ibus) SENP(er) AVG(ustis) BVRGVM
[in Raur]IACO CONFINE LEG(io) OCTA(va)
[August]ANENSIVM FECIT SVB CVR(a)
[---]RI P(rae)P(ositi) CONSV(libus) D(omino) N(ostro)
GRATIANO II
[et P]ROBO V(iro) C(larissimo)For the safety of our Lords
Valentinianus,
Valens and Gratianus,
ever victorious and everlasting Augusti, the fortification
on the border of the Raurician territory, the eighth legion
of the Augustanenses built under the supervision
of the commander [---]rus, when our Lord
Gratianus for the second time
and Probus, most distinguished man, were consuls.Inscription from 371 AD from Etzgen. Kolb et al. 2022, nr. 391; EDCS-12300042. Photo: Ewald-Schelker 1975, Abb. 3.
Literature
Hartmann-Weber 1985, 168; Drack-Fellmann 1988, 483-484.
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