Cohors III Sagittariorum

The inscription of the Prefect Gnaeus Munatius Aurelius Bassus ( CIL 14, 3955 )

The Cohors III Sagittariorum ( German 3rd cohort of archers ) was a Roman auxiliary unit . It is evidenced by military diplomas and inscriptions. In the diploma of 101 she is referred to as Cohors III Syrorum Sagittariorum .

Name components

Cohors : The cohort was an infantry unit of the auxiliary troops in the Roman army .

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 ...

Sagittariorum : the archer.

Syrorum : the Syrian. The soldiers of the cohort were recruited on the territory of the Roman province of Syria when the unit was established .

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 Galatia et Cappadocia . It is listed on military diplomas for the years AD 99-101.

The unit was probably stationed in the province of Syria at the end of the reign of Nero (54-68) . Under Vespasian, she may have participated in the Bellum Iudaicum . At an unspecified date, the unit was moved to the province of Galatia et Cappadocia , where it is first evidenced by a diploma dated 99. In the diploma, the cohort is listed as part of the troops (see Roman Armed Forces in Cappadocia ) that were stationed in the province. Another diploma, dated 101, proves unity in the same province.

Locations

The locations of the cohort are not known.

Members of the cohort

The following members of the cohort are known:

Commanders

[?] [Ca] tilius Lon [g] us, a prefect ( CIL 3, 335 )
Gnaeus Munatius Aurelius Bassus , a prefect

Others

[?]: the diploma of 101 was issued for him.

Web links

Commons : Cohors III Sagittariorum - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

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

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c Michael Alexander Speidel : The Development of the Roman Forces in Northeastern Anatolia. New evidence for the history of the exercitus Cappadocicus. , Special print from: MA Speidel, Heer und Herrschaft im Römischen Reich der Hohe Kaiserzeit, Stuttgart 2009, pp. 595–631, here pp. 605–606, 619–620 ( online ).

↑ ^a ^b Werner Eck , Andreas Pangerl: The fourth diploma for the province of Galatia et Cappadocia, issued in 99 In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , Volume 192 (2014), pp. 238–246, here p. 244 ( online ) .

↑ Military diplomas of the years 99 ( ZPE-192-238 ) and 101 (unpublished).

↑ John Spaul , Cohors², p 487

[mas-1] A ^b ^c Michael Alexander Speidel : The Development of the Roman Forces in Northeastern Anatolia. New evidence for the history of the exercitus Cappadocicus. , Special print from: MA Speidel, Heer und Herrschaft im Römischen Reich der Hohe Kaiserzeit, Stuttgart 2009, pp. 595–631, here pp. 605–606, 619–620 ( online ).

[we-2] Werner Eck , Andreas Pangerl: The fourth diploma for the province of Galatia et Cappadocia, issued in 99 In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , Volume 192 (2014), pp. 238–246, here p. 244 ( online ) .