Cohors I Bracarorum

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The Cohors I Bracarorum [civium Romanorum] ( German  1st cohort of the Bracarer [the Roman citizens] ) was a Roman auxiliary unit . It is documented by military diplomas.

Name components

  • Bracarorum : the Bracarer . The soldiers of the cohort were during installation of the unit either from the tribe of Bracarer or in the field of conventus Bracara Augusta (capital: Bracara Augusta recruited).
  • civium Romanorum : the Roman citizen. The soldiers of the unit had been granted Roman citizenship at one point in time. However, this did not apply to soldiers who were accepted into the unit after this point in time. They received Roman citizenship only with their honorable farewell ( Honesta missio ) after 25 years of service. The addition occurs in the military diploma of 104.

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 Mauretania Tingitana . It is listed on military diplomas for the years AD 88-104.

The first evidence of unity in Mauretania Tingitana is based on a diploma dated 88. In the diploma, the cohort is listed as part of the troops (see Roman forces in Mauretania ) that were stationed in the province. Another diploma, dated 104, proves unity in the same province.

The cohort may have been stationed in Mauretania Tingitana in the 30s of the 2nd century .

Locations

The locations of the cohort are not known.

Members of the cohort

Members of the cohort are not known.

See also

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 that the Cohors I Bracarorum stationed in the province of Mauretania Tingitana is an independent cohort that does not match either the Cohors I Bracaraugustanorum (Dacia) stationed in the province of Dacia inferior or the one in the Moesia province stationed Cohors I Bracaraugustanorum (Moesia) is identical.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Margaret M. Roxan , The Auxilia, pp. 65, 68, 410-412, 733.
  2. ↑ John Spaul , Cohors², pp. 70-71, 88-90.
  3. ^ 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. 176 Table 18 ( PDF ).
  4. ↑ a b Emanuele Papi: Diploma militare da Thamusida (Mauretania Tingitana): 103/104 In: Journal for papyrology and epigraphy . Volume 146 (2004), pp. 255-258, here p. 256.
  5. ↑ Military diplomas of the years 88 ( CIL 16, 159 ) and 104 ( ZPE-146-255 ).