Cohors III Bracaraugustanorum (Syria Palaestina)

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The military diploma of the year 90 ( RMD 5, 332 )
The military diploma of the year 139 ( CIL 16, 87 )

The Cohors III Bracaraugustanorum ( German  3rd cohort from Bracara Augusta ) was a Roman auxiliary unit . It is evidenced by military diplomas and inscriptions. In the diplomas it is mainly referred to as Cohors III Callaecorum Bracaraugustanorum , in an inscription as Cohors III Bracarum .

Name components
  • III : The Roman number stands for the ordinal number, the third ( Latin tertia ). Hence the name of this military unit is pronounced as Cohors tertia ...
  • Callaecorum : the callaecer . The soldiers were recruited from the Callaec people.
  • Bracaraugustanorum : from the conventus Bracara Augusta . The soldiers of the cohort were recruited when the unit was established in the area of ​​the conventus (iuridicus) Bracara Augusta (with the capital Bracara Augusta ).

Since there are no references to the additions to the name milliaria (1000 men) and equitata (partially mounted), it can be assumed that it is a Cohors quingenaria peditata , a pure infantry cohort. The nominal strength of the unit was 480 men, consisting of 6 Centuries with 80 men each.

history

The cohort was stationed in the province of Iudaea (or Syria Palestine ). It is listed on military diplomas for the years AD 86 to 160.

The first evidence of unity in Iudaea is based on a diploma dated 86. In the diploma, the cohort is listed as part of the troops (see Roman Armed Forces in Iudaea ) that were stationed in the province. Further diplomas, which are dated from 87 to 160, prove the unit in the same province (or from 136/137 in Syria Palestine ).

Locations

The locations of the cohort are not known.

Members of the cohort

The following members of the cohort are known.

Commanders

  • Cominius Agricola L [a] elius Aper, a prefect ( CIL 12, 672 )
  • M (arcus) Fabius Mettianus, a prefect ( AE 1935, 35 )

Others

See also

Web links

Commons : Cohors III Bracaraugustanorum (Syria Palaestina)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Margaret M. Roxan : The Auxilia of the Roman Army raised in the Iberian Peninsula. Dissertation, 1973 Volume 1 ( PDF ) Volume 2 ( PDF )
  • John Spaul : Cohors² The evidence for and a short history of the auxiliary infantry units of the Imperial Roman Army , British Archaeological Reports 2000, BAR International Series (Book 841), ISBN 978-1-84171-046-4

Remarks

  1. ↑ The scenario given here assumes three different units with the name Cohors III Bracaraugustanorum : the Cohors III Bracaraugustanorum (Britannia) , which was stationed in the province of Britannia , the Cohors III Bracaraugustanorum (Raetia) , which was stationed in the province of Raetia as well another unit, the Cohors III Bracaraugustanorum (Syria Palaestina) , which was stationed in the province of Iudaea (or Syria Palaestina ).
  2. ↑ a b c d An exact assignment of the listed soldier to one of the three Cohors III Bracaraugustanorum is not possible, since the inscription does not indicate in which province the unit was stationed.
  3. ↑ According to Werner Eck, the unknown soldier served either in the Cohors III Bracaraugustanorum or in the Cohors IIII Bracaraugustanorum .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Inscription ( AE 1983, 380 )
  2. ↑ a b Margaret M. Roxan , The Auxilia, pp. 65, 68, 743-745.
  3. ↑ Military diplomas of the years 86 ( AE 2010, 1871 , AE 2012, 1959 ), 87 ( ZPE-170-201 ), 90 ( RMD 5, 332 ), 136/137 ( RMD 3, 160 ), 139 ( CIL 16, 87 ), 142 ( RMM 29 ), 158 ( ZPE-159-283 ) and 160 ( AE 2005, 1730 , AE 2011, 1810 , RMD 3, 173 , RMM 41 ).
  4. ^ A b John Spaul , Cohors², pp. 70-71, 92-93.
  5. ^ Jörg Scheuerbrandt : Exercitus. Tasks, organization and command structure of Roman armies during the imperial era. Dissertation, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau 2003/2004, p. 173 Table 15 ( PDF ).
  6. ↑ Werner Eck : Epigraphische Vorarbeit zu Volume IV of the CIIP In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , Volume 193 (2014), pp. 261–271, here pp. 266–267 ( online ).