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Introduction The forum Houses, workshops, baths The temple complex |
The curse tablets The mithraeum Burial places |
Extensive remains of a settlement (vicus) have been found in Kempraten, a district of Rapperswil, at the east end of the Zürichsee. Sporadic discoveries were made as early as 1531, but it would not be until 1941 that the settlement was recognized as such. The Roman name may well have been Lindomagus.
Plan of Kempraten with archaeological sites. 1: forum (Rapperswil, Rütistrasse 6 - Meienbergstrasse); 2: road to Vitudurum (Oberwinterthur);
3: road to the harbour; 4: road to Curia (Chur); 5: road to Vierwaldstättersee; 6-7: houses with peristyles; 8-11: strip houses; 12: buildings with
one/two rooms; 13: baths; 14: Gallo-Roman temples; 15: mithraeum and road to Turicum (Zürich); 16: burial ground. From the Informationstafel.
COC(ceius) PROVIN
CIALIS SIGNO
[E]VLOGIVS VIS(u)
[l(ibens)] L(aetus) P(osuit) PRO SE SV
[isq]V[e] OMNIB(us)Cocceius Provincialis,
also known as
Eulogius, after a vision,
gladly and joyfully placed this for himself
and for all his people.Altar of sandstone, found in 1531.
W. 0.595, h. 0.915, d. 0385.
Stadtmuseum Rapperswil-Jona.
Kolb et al. 2022, nr. 402; EDCS-10800652.
Photo: Wikimedia, Roland zh.
Introduction
The forum
Houses, workshops, baths
The temple complexThe curse tablets
The mithraeum
Burial places
Literature
Bär-Brockmann 1942; Halter 1943; Bär-Brockmann 1944; Halter 1945; Grüninger 1987; Drack-Fellmann 1988, 473-476; Drack-Fellmann 1991, 211-212; Grüninger 1993; Grüninger 1998; Matter 1999; Matter 2003(1); Matter 2003(2); Ackermann 2007; Ackermann 2008; Koch - Lieb - Frei-Stolba 2011; Ackermann 2013(1); Ackermann 2013(2); Ackermann 2014; Koch-Schindler 2014; Koch et al. 2017; Koch 2018; Geisseler-Koch 2018; Lo Russo et al. 2018; Koch 2019; Ackermann et al. 2020.
Plus: Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte 81 (1998), 295; 87 (2004), 384-385; 93 (2010), 254-255; 94 (2011), 256; 97 (2014), 240-242; Jahrbuch Archäologie Schweiz 92 (2009), 306-308; 93 (2010), 253-254; 95 (2012), 194-195; 99 (2016), 205-207; 100 (2017) 240-242; Neujahrsblatt des Historischen Vereins des Kantons St. Gallen 144 (2004), 195; 150 (2010), 116-117, 123-124; 151 (2011), 166; 152 (2012), 131; 153 (2013), 86; 154 (2014), 191-193.
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