Cohors II Dacorum

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The Cohors II Dacorum ( German  2nd cohort of the Dacians ) was a Roman auxiliary unit . It is documented by a military diploma .

Name components

  • Dacorum : the Dacian . The soldiers of the cohort were recruited from the Dacian people 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 Moesia superior province . It is listed on a military diploma for the year 126 AD.

The unit may have been set up before the first of Trajan's two Dacian Wars . The only evidence of unity in Moesia superior is based on a diploma dated 126. In the diploma, the cohort is listed as part of the troops (see Roman Armed Forces in Moesia ) that were stationed in the province.

Since the cohort is listed separately from the other units in the diploma ( item cohorte II Dacorum ), it was probably already relocated to another province at this point in time. It is uncertain whether the unit is identical to one of the two other Dacian cohorts that are documented for the end of the 2nd or the middle of the 3rd century.

Locations

The locations of the cohort are not known.

Members of the cohort

Members of the cohort are not known.

Other cohorts with the designation Cohors II Dacorum

There was another cohort with this name, the Cohors II Aurelia Dacorum . She is documented by military diplomas for 193 and was stationed in the province of Pannonia Inferior .

See also

Remarks

  1. ↑ The recruitment of the 125/126 discharged soldiers had to take place at least 25 years beforehand. According to Werner Eck , Andreas Pangerl (2006), there are two possible explanations for this: either the soldiers were recruited from Dacians before or during the first Dacian war and were willing to cooperate with the Romans. Or the discharged soldiers formed a core of experienced soldiers (from other units) when the cohort was set up, around which the new unit of mostly Dacian recruits was formed.
  2. ↑ According to Werner Eck, Andreas Pangerl (2014), Peter Weiß suggested that the unit should be moved to the province of Britannia ; there it could have merged into the Cohors I Aelia Dacorum .
  3. ↑ According to Werner Eck, Andreas Pangerl (2006) it is unlikely that the Cohors II Dacorum with the Cohors II Aurelia Dacorum or the Cohors Gemina Dacorum milliaria Gordiana , which is listed in the inscription ( CIL 3, 14211.09 ), is identical.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Eck , Andreas Pangerl: New diplomas for the auxiliary troops in the Mösischen provinces from Vespasian to Hadrian In: Dacia 50 (2006), p. 93-104, here p. 103-104 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Werner Eck, Andreas Pangerl: New diplomas for the troops of Moesia superior and inferior In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , Volume 192 (2014), pp. 215–237, here pp. 228–229 ( online ).
  3. ^ Military diploma of the year 126 ( Dacia-2006-104 ).