07-26-2009, 08:51 PM
Quote:Well, in the article I mentioned above, even a date (year, month and day, not the usual some year period!) for the day it received it´s insignia is given: April 22 10 a.C.Eureka!
AE 1910, 1 (= Dessau, ILS 9130 -- not listed in the Spanish Wikipedia entry for this regiment) records:
I(ovi) O(ptimo) M(aximo) s(acrum)
pro salute Imp(eratoris)
Caes(aris) M(arci) Aur(eli) Anto-
nini Aug(usti) ob nata[le(m)]
aprunculorum
milites coh(ortis) I Gal[l(icae)]
sub cura M(arci) Senti
Bucconis
(centurionis) coh(ortis) eiusd(em)
et Val(erii) Sempronian[ i]
beneficiari(i) proc(uratoris) Au[g(usti)]
X Kal(endas) Mai(as) Pisone et Iuliano co(n)s(ulibus)
"The soldiers of cohors I Gallica" set up the inscription (an altar to Jupiter Best and Greatest) for the good health of Marcus Aurelius in AD 175 (? Pisone et Iuliano consulibus) to celebrate "the birthday of the little boars" on April 22 (i.e. 10 days before the kalends of May).
I guess "the birthday of the little boars" is the cohort's equivalent of the common legionary "birthday of the eagle" -- I confess I had not come across this previously. So the unit was formally constituted on April 22. (Now we only need to find evidence for the year of foundation.)
Many thanks for bringing this up, Iagoba. I owe you 1 karma!
(P.S. But no mention of voluntariorum! :wink: )
