09-21-2018, 04:18 PM
I am looking into the possibility that inscriptions about numeri can refer to either the “ethnic” sense or the “tactical” sense.
publication: CIL 03, 11135 = D 04311 = CCID 00232 = MaCarnuntum 00086 = CSIR-Oe-Carn-S-01, 00703 = Legio-II-Parth 00034 = AEA 1985/92, +00137 = AEA 2008, +00019 = AEA 2011/12, +00022 = AE 1982, 00786 = AE 1983, 00767
dating: 235 to 238 EDCS-ID: EDCS-29100231
province: Pannonia superior place: Bad Deutsch-Altenburg / Carnuntum
[I(ovi) O(ptimo)] M(aximo) / Dolich(eno) / pro sal(ute) / [[[Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris)] C(ai)]] / [[[Iul(i) Veri M]ax]]/[[[imini P(ii)] F(elicis)]] / [[[Invic(ti) Au]g(usti)]] / [6] / [3 Ulpi]us / Amandianus / mil(es) leg(ionis) / XIIII G(eminae) / librari[u]s / numeri s(uprascripti) / cus(tos) arm(orum) / signif[er] / optio / o[cta]v[i] / pr(incipis) pr(ioris) / candidatus / Numini / cum U[l]pio / Amando / [ve]t(erano) le[g(ionis)] s(upra) s(criptae) / p(osuit)
This inscription about a numerus of Legio XIIII Geminae refers in this case I think to the “tactical” sense.
It seems perhaps most numerus inscriptions of the Later Roman Army refer to the “ethnic” sense (whatever that could mean).
One major problem is that most inscriptions are abbreviated in some way, preventing us from full understanding.
publication: CIL 03, 11135 = D 04311 = CCID 00232 = MaCarnuntum 00086 = CSIR-Oe-Carn-S-01, 00703 = Legio-II-Parth 00034 = AEA 1985/92, +00137 = AEA 2008, +00019 = AEA 2011/12, +00022 = AE 1982, 00786 = AE 1983, 00767
dating: 235 to 238 EDCS-ID: EDCS-29100231
province: Pannonia superior place: Bad Deutsch-Altenburg / Carnuntum
[I(ovi) O(ptimo)] M(aximo) / Dolich(eno) / pro sal(ute) / [[[Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris)] C(ai)]] / [[[Iul(i) Veri M]ax]]/[[[imini P(ii)] F(elicis)]] / [[[Invic(ti) Au]g(usti)]] / [6] / [3 Ulpi]us / Amandianus / mil(es) leg(ionis) / XIIII G(eminae) / librari[u]s / numeri s(uprascripti) / cus(tos) arm(orum) / signif[er] / optio / o[cta]v[i] / pr(incipis) pr(ioris) / candidatus / Numini / cum U[l]pio / Amando / [ve]t(erano) le[g(ionis)] s(upra) s(criptae) / p(osuit)
This inscription about a numerus of Legio XIIII Geminae refers in this case I think to the “tactical” sense.
It seems perhaps most numerus inscriptions of the Later Roman Army refer to the “ethnic” sense (whatever that could mean).
One major problem is that most inscriptions are abbreviated in some way, preventing us from full understanding.
