Cohors III Lucensium

The Cohors III Lucensium ( German  3rd cohort from the conventus Lucensis ) was a Roman auxiliary unit . It is documented by inscriptions. For the Cohors Silaucensium, see the section on uncertainties .

Name components

• Lucensium : from the conventus Lucensis . The soldiers of the cohort were recruited when the unit was set up in the area of ​​the conventus Lucensis (with the capital Lucus Augusti ).

• equitata : partially mounted. The unit, like the Cohors I and II Lucensium, was possibly a mixed formation of infantry and cavalry.

Since there is no reference to the addition of milliaria (1000 men) to the name , the unit was either a Cohors (quingenaria) peditata , a pure infantry cohort, with a nominal strength of 480 men or a Cohors (quingenaria) equitata with a nominal strength of 600 men (480 infantry and 120 riders), consisting of six Centurien infantry with 80 men each and four tower cavalry with 30 riders each.

history

The few inscriptions, some of which are poorly preserved and whose assignment to the Cohors III Lucensium is also uncertain, do not give a clear picture (see section Uncertainties ), although the existence of the cohort itself is assumed to be certain. The cohort may be identical to the Cohors Lucensis , which is listed in the Notitia dignitatum for the Luco site .

Locations

Locations of the cohort in Germania inferior were possibly:

• Asciburgium ( Asberg ): The tombstone of Tib (erius) Iul (ius) Sedebdas was found in Asberg.

Locations of the cohort in Hispania Tarraconensis may have been:

• Lucus Augusti ( Lugo ): The tombstone of Vecius was found in Lugo. In addition, the Notitia dignitatum mentions a Cohors Lucensis for the Luco location .

Members of the cohort

The following members of the cohort are known.

• Tib (erius) Iul (ius) Sedebdas ( CIL 13, 8593 )
• Vecius, a soldier ( CIL 2, 2584 )

Uncertainties

The assignment of the following inscriptions is uncertain.

• ( CIL 2, 4132 ): According to Margaret M. Roxan , the inscription can be assigned to the Cohors III Lucensium or a Cohors III Luggonum . The epigraphy database Clauss-Slaby draws Cohors III Lusitanorum into consideration.

• ( CIL 13, 8593 ): John Spaul reads the inscription as Coh III Laucensiu and assigns it to the Cohors III Lucensium . Another reading is Cohors Silau (censum) ; however, this unit is not used anywhere else. Coh Silauciensiu reads the Clauss-Slaby epigraphic database .

• ( CIL 13, 8823 ): John Spaul assigns the inscription to the Cohors III Lucensium , while Agustín Jiménez de Furundarena and Paul A. Holder assign the Cohors I Lucensium .

See also

• List of Roman auxiliary units

Remarks

1. ↑ See the individual references and literature given in the article.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Margaret M. Roxan : The Auxilia of the Roman Army raised in the Iberian Peninsula Volume 1. (PDF 23.5 MB) discovery.ucl.ac.uk, 1973, pp. 68,72-73,467,480-482 (65,69-70,464,477-479) , accessed May 14, 2017 . 
2. ^ Notitia dignitatum in partibus Occidentis XLII.29 ( online ).
3. ^ ^{A b c} 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 , P. 85
4. ↑ Margaret M. Roxan: The Auxilia of the Roman Army raised in the Iberian Peninsula Volume 2. (PDF 9.8 MB) discovery.ucl.ac.uk, 1973, p. 180 (759) , accessed on May 14, 2017 (English). 
5. ↑ Agustín Jiménez de Furundarena: Cohors I Lucensium Equitata In: Hispania Antiqua XL (2016), pp. 169–190, here p. 174 ( online ).
6. ^ Paul A. Holder: Exercitus Pius Fidelis: The Army of Germania Inferior in AD 89 In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik . Volume 128 (1999), pp. 237-250, here p. 242 ( PDF ).