03-19-2014, 11:35 PM
Quote:the controversial Panopolis Papyrii... approximately 1100 men for Legio II Traiana, 1800 for Legio III Diocletiana, 160 for the Equites promoti...
But bear in mind that the Beatty papyri can only be used to try and calculate the numbers of detachments based in the Thebaid, not the full legions. II Traiana was probably still based at Nicopolis, so would have been much larger than the 993 infantry and 77 cavalry suggested by the papyri. There's also another papyrus - Columbia 7.188 - from AD320, giving a vexillatio of equites promoti of II Traiana 264 men.
Nathan Ross