Numerus Campestrorum

The Numerus Campestrorum ( German Numerus Campestrorum ) was a Roman auxiliary unit . It is evidenced by an inscription.

Name components

Campestrorum : At present the name cannot be derived from a place or a tribe.

history

The number is evidenced by the inscription ( CIL 3, 1607 ), which was found near Potaissa in today's Romania and which goes to the 2nd / 3rd. Century AD is dated. Based on the location of the tombstone, it is generally assumed that the unit was stationed in the province of Dacia .

Locations

Locations of the Numerus in Dacia are not known.

Members of the number

A member of the number, Valerius Lo [ng] inus , a veteran, is known by the inscription ( CIL 3, 1607 ).

Remarks

↑ Marcus Reuter rejects the explanation that the Numerus Campestrorum was a detached division of the Cohors III Campestris , on the grounds that such delegations were usually named after their new location.
↑ It is uncertain whether the unit is also listed in the inscription ( CIL 3, 1343 ). Marcus Reuter considers the reading of part of the inscription as Numerus Campistrorum questionable. The reading in the Clauss-Slaby epigraphy database is [coh (ors) III (?)] [Camp] estr (is) .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Marcus Reuter : Studies on the numbers of the Roman Army in the Middle Imperial Age, Dissertation, In: Reports of the Roman-Germanic Commission 80, 1999, pp. 359–569, here pp. 469–470.

[NA-2] Marcus Reuter rejects the explanation that the Numerus Campestrorum was a detached division of the Cohors III Campestris , on the grounds that such delegations were usually named after their new location.

[GE-3] It is uncertain whether the unit is also listed in the inscription ( CIL 3, 1343 ). Marcus Reuter considers the reading of part of the inscription as Numerus Campistrorum questionable. The reading in the Clauss-Slaby epigraphy database is [coh (ors) III (?)] [Camp] estr (is) .

[mr-1] Marcus Reuter : Studies on the numbers of the Roman Army in the Middle Imperial Age, Dissertation, In: Reports of the Roman-Germanic Commission 80, 1999, pp. 359–569, here pp. 469–470.