Laterculus veronensis

The Laterculus Veronensis (German also Veronese directory ) is a directory of the Roman provinces after Diocletian's imperial reform, preserved in a heavily corrupted manuscript from the 7th century .

Text and dating

The manuscript is in the Biblioteca Capitolare in Verona . Although the content was first published by Scipione Maffei in the 18th century , it was only Theodor Mommsen who recognized the importance of the document and published a corresponding article in 1862.

At that time, Mommsen dated the contents of the list to the year 297, but there is now agreement that the list should be added later, namely to the beginning of the 4th century after 303 and before 320. Whether the list has a status at a certain point in time describes, or has different actualities for the western and eastern part of the empire, was long controversial. In the meantime the position has prevailed that list 314 was compiled after the division of the empire under Constantine and Licinius .

The provinces were grouped according to the twelve dioceses of Diocletian, with a first group of dioceses (Oriens - Pannoniae) corresponding to the eastern half of the empire and another (Britanniae - Africa) to the western half.

After listing the provinces, there is a list of barbaric peoples in three parts, which Karl Müllenhoff examined.

content

Additions in square brackets

Dioecesis Orientis [17 provinces]: Libya superior, Libya inferior, Thebais, Aegyptus Iovia, Aegyptus Herculia, Arabia [nova], Arabia, Augusta Libanensis, Palestine, [Syria] Phenice, Syria Coele, Augusta Euphratensis, Cilicia, Isauria Mesopotamia, Osrhoene
Dioecesis Pontica [7 provinces]: Bithynia, Cappadocia, Galatia, Paphlagonia, Diospontus, Pontus Polemoniacus, Armenia minor
Dioecesis Asiana [9 provinces]: [Lycia et] Pamphylia, Phrygia prima, Phrygia secunda, Asia, Lydia, Caria, Insulae, Pisidia, Hellespontus
Dioecesis Thraciarum [6 provinces]: Europe, Rhodope, Thracia, Haemimontus, Scythia, Moesia inferior
Dioecesis Moesiae [11 provinces]: Dacia [Mediterranea], [Dacia Ripensis], Moesia superior / Margensis, Dardania, Macedonia, Thessalia, [Achaea], Praevalitana, Epirus nova, Epirus vetus, Creta
Dioecesis Pannoniae [7 provinces]: Pannonia inferior, [Pannonia] Savensis, Dalmatia, Valeria, Pannonia superior, Noricum Ripense, Noricum Mediterraneum
Dioecesis Britanniae [4 provinces]: Britannia prima, Britannia secunda, Maxima Caesariensis, Flavia Caesariensis
Dioecesis Galliae [8 provinces]: Belgica prima, Belgica secunda, Germania prima, Germania secunda, Sequania, Lugdunensis prima, Lugdunensis Secunda, Alpes Graiae et Poeninae
Dioecesis Viennensis [7 provinces]: Viennensis, Narbonensis prima, Narbonensis secunda, Novem Populi, Aquitanica prima, Aquitanica secunda, Alpes Maritimae
Dioecesis Italiae [12 provinces]: Venetia et Histria, [Aemilia et Liguria], Flaminia et Picenum, Tuscia et Umbria, [Latium et Campania], Apulia et Calabria, Lucania [et Brutii], [Sicilia], [Sardinia], Corsica , Alpes Cottiae, Raetia
Dioecesis Hispaniae [6 provinces]: Baetica, Lusitania, Carthaginiensis, Gallaecia, Tarraconensis, Mauretania Tingitana
Dioecesis Africae [7 provinces]: [Africa] Proconsularis / Zeugitana, Byzacena, [Tripolitania], Numidia Cirtensis, Numidia Militiana, Mauretania Caesariensis, Mauretania [Sitifensis] / Tubusuctitana

expenditure

Timothy David Barnes: The new empire of Diocletian and Constantine. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (MA) 1982, ISBN 0-674-61126-8 , pp. 201-208.
Theodor Mommsen : Directory of the Roman provinces drawn up around 297. In: Treatises of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. Phil.-hist. Class . 1862, pp. 489-518 ( digitized version ).
Alexander Riese : Geographi Latini minores. Henninger, Heilbronn 1878, pp. 127–129 ( digitized version ).
Otto Seeck : Notitia dignitatum: accedunt Notitia urbis Constantinopolitanae et laterculi provinciarum. Weidmann, Berlin 1876, pp. 247-251 ( digitized version ).

literature

Timothy David Barnes: The Unity of the Verona List. In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 16, 1975, pp. 275-278
John B. Bury: The Provincial List of Verona. In: Journal of Roman Studies 13, 1923, pp. 127–151
Arnold HM Jones: The Date and Value of the Verona List. In: Journal of Roman Studies 44, 1954, pp. 21-29
Clinton Walker Keyes: The Date of the Laterculus Veronensis. In: Classical Philology 11, 1916, pp. 196-201

Remarks

↑ Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare, MS II (2), fol. 255 recto line 14 to fol. 256 recto line 19.
↑ Scipione Maffei: Opusculi ecclestiastici. Trento 1742, p. 84. Reprinted in: Ders .: Opere. Vol. 11: Verona illustrata. Venice 1790, p. 159.
↑ See John Wilkes: Changes in Roman provincial organization, AD 193-337 . In: Alan K. Bowman, Peter Garnsey, Averil Cameron (Eds.): The Crisis of Empire AD 193-337. Cambridge Ancient History Vol. 12 . Cambridge 2008, pp. 706f. For the controversy see TD Barnes: The Unity of the Verona List. In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 16, 1975, pp. 275-278. Barnes has since revised his position, he is now following Arnold Hugh Martin Jones and Constantin Zuckerman, see Constantine after Seven Hundred Years. The Cambridge Companion, the York Exhibition and a Recent Biography . In: International Journal of the Classical Tradition 14, 2007, p. 203.
^ Karl Müllenhoff: About the appendix to the provincial directory of 297. In: Abhandlungen der Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften. Phil.-hist. Class . 1862, pp. 518-538 ( digitized version ).

[1] Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare, MS II (2), fol. 255 recto line 14 to fol. 256 recto line 19.

[2] Scipione Maffei: Opusculi ecclestiastici. Trento 1742, p. 84. Reprinted in: Ders .: Opere. Vol. 11: Verona illustrata. Venice 1790, p. 159.

[3] See John Wilkes: Changes in Roman provincial organization, AD 193-337 . In: Alan K. Bowman, Peter Garnsey, Averil Cameron (Eds.): The Crisis of Empire AD 193-337. Cambridge Ancient History Vol. 12 . Cambridge 2008, pp. 706f. For the controversy see TD Barnes: The Unity of the Verona List. In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 16, 1975, pp. 275-278. Barnes has since revised his position, he is now following Arnold Hugh Martin Jones and Constantin Zuckerman, see Constantine after Seven Hundred Years. The Cambridge Companion, the York Exhibition and a Recent Biography . In: International Journal of the Classical Tradition 14, 2007, p. 203.

[4] Karl Müllenhoff: About the appendix to the provincial directory of 297. In: Abhandlungen der Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften. Phil.-hist. Class . 1862, pp. 518-538 ( digitized version ).