Viggen Posted January 22, 2007 Report Share Posted January 22, 2007 Genialinius Gennatus was one fine duck hunter. -- In the third century , he recorded his prowess in high Latin on a stone tablet that he dedicated to Jupiter. That and a hefty donation probably ensured that the tablet won display in the temple to the Roman god in the settlement then called Colonia. Five or six centuries later, Cologne's early Christians, perhaps offended by the tablet dedicated to a pantheist god, chucked it into the silting channel between the Rhine river port and a small island on the Rhine, unknowingly ensuring the hunter's immortality. Historians now know the ordinary man named Gennatus hunted ducks and prayed to Jupiter because of Cologne's decision to punch 2 1/2 miles of new north-south light railway tunnel through the silt and sediment that lie beneath one of Germany's oldest cities. full article at the Boston Globe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Dalby Posted January 22, 2007 Report Share Posted January 22, 2007 Now if you had said "construction unearths Roman railway in Germany" that would really have been front page news ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted January 22, 2007 Report Share Posted January 22, 2007 I think that the Roman name of the city was Colonia Aggripina. What I can't understand is how 50 feet of soil got on top of everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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