Cohors VI Hispanorum

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The Cohors VI Hispanorum ( German  6th cohort of Hispanics ) was a Roman auxiliary unit . It is evidenced by military diplomas and inscriptions. In an inscription it is referred to as Cohors VI Hispania , in the Notitia dignitatum as Ala VI Hispanorum .

Name components

  • VI : The Roman number stands for the ordinal number the sixth ( Latin sexta ). Hence the name of this military unit is pronounced as Cohors sexta ...
  • Hispanorum : the Hispanic . The soldiers of the cohort were recruited on the territory of the Roman province of Hispania 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 Arabia . It is listed on military diplomas for the years 126 to 142 AD.

The unit may have been set up during the reign of Augustus . It was probably stationed in Cilicia or Syria in the 1st century and was possibly moved to Arabia around 106 after the annexation of the Nabatean Empire by Trajan . The first evidence in Arabia is based on a diploma dated 126. In the diploma, the cohort is listed as part of the troops (see Roman Forces in Arabia ) that were stationed in the province. Another diploma, dated 142, proves unity in the same province. An inscription shows that soldiers of the unit built a fort at Qasr Al-Hallabat around 213 with soldiers from other cohorts .

The unit is mentioned for the last time in the Notitia dignitatum with the designation Ala sexta Hispanorum for the Gomoha location. She was part of the troops under the command of the Dux Arabiae .

Locations

Unit locations in Arabia may have been:

Members of the cohort

The following members of the cohort are known.

Commanders

  • [Π. Αιλ] ιος Φα [υστια] νος (P. Aelius Faustinus), a χειλιαρχος ( tribune ). He was also the tribune of the Cohors I Raetorum . (IGR 4.728)
  • Q (uintus) P []: he is named on the diploma of 126 as a commander.

Others

  • Aemilius Crispus, a soldier ( AE 1990, 995 )
  • Diurdanus: the diploma of 126 was issued to him.
  • Γαιος, a soldier ( AE 1993, 1652 )

See also

literature

  • Margaret M. Roxan : The Auxilia of the Roman Army raised in the Iberian Peninsula. Dissertation, 1973 Volume 1 ( PDF 1 ) Volume 2 ( PDF 2 )
  • 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. ↑ a b According to Margaret M. Roxan and Peter Weiß , Michael P. Speidel , the Cohors VI Hispanorum (possibly in the 4th century) was transformed into a cavalry unit (see Ala ), the Ala VI Hispanorum .
  2. ^ According to Margaret M. Roxan, the unit may have been both milliaria and equitata ; in this case the nominal strength of the unit would have been 1040 men.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inscription ( CIL 11, 4376 )
  2. ↑ Military diplomas from the years 126 ( ZPE-197-227 ) and 142 ( ZPE-150-254 ).
  3. ↑ a b c Margaret M. Roxan , The Auxilia, pp. 289-292, 295-297, 688-689.
  4. ↑ a b Peter Weiß , Michael P. Speidel : The first military diploma for Arabia In: Journal for papyrology and epigraphy . Volume 150 (2004), pp. 253-264, here pp. 263-264 ( online ).
  5. ↑ a b inscription ( GLISyrA 17 )
  6. ^ Notitia dignitatum in partibus Orientis XXXVII ( online ).
  7. ↑ John Spaul , Cohors², pp. 108, 136, 138.
  8. ↑ a b Werner Eck , Andreas Pangerl: A diploma for the auxiliary troops of the province of Arabia, issued under Hadrian, probably in the year 126 In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , Volume 197 (2016), pp. 227–230, here p. 229 ( Online ).