Peter Fasold

Peter Fasold (* 1951 in Munich ) is a German provincial Roman archaeologist .

Scientific activity

Peter Fasold studied Roman provincial archeology as well as prehistory and early history at the University of Munich . In 1985 he received his doctorate there with a dissertation on the Roman-Norican burial ground of Bedaium . In 1988 he became curator at the Archaeological Museum in Frankfurt and head of the Roman department. From 2002 until his retirement in 2016 he was the museum's deputy director.

The focus of his work is the research of Roman burial customs. In addition to his dissertation, as curator of the Frankfurt Museum, he made significant contributions to the burial grounds of the Roman city of Nida - Heddernheim .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• Roman grave custom in southern Germany (=  writings of the Limes Museum Aalen. Volume 46). Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart 1992.
• The Roman-Noric burial ground of Seebruck-Bedaium (= material booklets for Bavarian prehistory. Volume 64). Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1993 (dissertation).
• Excavations in the German Pompeii. Archaeological research in Frankfurt's north-west city. Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Frankfurt am Main 1997.
• Thousands of deaths. The burial places of the Roman military camp and Civitas capital Nida in the north of Frankfurt (=  Archaeological Series. Volume 20). Archaeological Museum, Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 3-88270-348-2 .
• The burial places of the Roman military camp and Civitas main town Nida (Frankfurt am Main-Heddernheim and -Praunheim) (=  writings of the Frankfurt Museum for Prehistory and Early History. Volume 20). 3 volumes, Frankfurt 2006–2011.
• The Romans in Frankfurt ( Frankfurt's archeology ). Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7954-3277-5 .

Editing

• with Marion Witteyer : Deprived of light. Honoring the dead in the Roman grave road of Mainz-Weisenau. Exhibition catalog, Wiesbadener Graphische Betriebe, Wiesbaden 1995, ISBN 3-88270-327-X .

Other

• The ceramics from the dendrophoric cellar in Nida-Heddernheim. In: Saalburg yearbook. Volume 47, 1994, pp. 71-78.
• For the foundation of the Civitas capital Nida. In: Egon Schallmayer (Ed.): Traian in Germanien, Traian im Reich. Report of the Third Saalburg Colloquium (= Saalburg Writings. Volume 5). Saalburg Museum, Bad Homburg v. d. H. 1999, ISBN 3-931267-04-0 , pp. 235-246.
• Nida-Frankfurt. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 15/1, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01485-1 , Sp. 980-984.
• Nida. Capital of the civitas Taunensium. In: Vera Rupp , Heide Birley (Hrsg.): Country life in Roman Germany. Theiss, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-8062-2573-0 , pp. 91-94.

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Fasold in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• A weakness for the old Romans , Frankfurter Neue Presse July 1, 2016