Numerus Exploratorum Habitancensium

The Numerus Exploratorum Habitancensium ( German Numerus of the scouts in Habitancum ) was a Roman auxiliary unit . It is documented by inscriptions. In the literature, the term Exploratores Habitancenses occurs for the unit .

Name components

Exploratorum : the scout or scout.

Habitancensium : in Habitancum . The addition refers to the Roman auxiliary fort Habitancum .

history

The number was stationed in the province of Britannia Inferior in the 3rd century AD . It is first documented by the inscription (RIB 1235) that was found in the Habitancum fort and that is dated to 213 AD.

Locations

Locations of the number in Britannia inferior were:

Habitancum (Risingham): The inscriptions (RIB 1235, 1243, 1244) were found here.

Members of the number

Members of the number are not known.

Web links

4753 - Exploratores Habitancenses. Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB), accessed September 3, 2018 .

Remarks

↑ ^a ^b According to Marcus Reuter , the geographical epithet Habitancensium or Habitancenses has been added because it has not yet been found in any inscription for the unit.
↑ According to Marcus Reuter , the Exploratores were probably not local, indigenous scouts, but regular soldiers of the Roman army who were specially deployed for reconnaissance purposes.

Individual evidence

↑ Marcus Reuter : Studies on the numbers of the Roman Army in the Middle Imperial Era, dissertation, In: Reports of the Roman-Germanic Commission 80, 1999, pp. 359–569, here pp. 364–365, 493–495.

[NA1-1] According to Marcus Reuter , the geographical epithet Habitancensium or Habitancenses has been added because it has not yet been found in any inscription for the unit.

[NA2-2] According to Marcus Reuter , the Exploratores were probably not local, indigenous scouts, but regular soldiers of the Roman army who were specially deployed for reconnaissance purposes.

[mr-3] Marcus Reuter : Studies on the numbers of the Roman Army in the Middle Imperial Era, dissertation, In: Reports of the Roman-Germanic Commission 80, 1999, pp. 359–569, here pp. 364–365, 493–495.