Auxiliary Cohorts and their titles

[Nathan Ross]

the unit was probably Cohors I Cisipadensium, and was from Syrtis Major

Aha! yes, that makes more sense - the altered spelling brings up quite a few inscriptions, mostly from Moesia. And the cohort presumably originally recruited from the 'Cisipades' mentioned in Pliny's Natural History? So Africans, not Italians...

a dedication to the emperor Maxentius in AD235 from a cohors I cispandensium (CIL 3.14429).

I find this one listed as follows:

Imp(eratori) Caesar] / [[Gaio Iulio Vero]] / [[Maximino]] Aug(usto) / pontifici max(imo) / tribuniciae po/test(ate) co(n)s(uli) p(atri) p(atriae) / coh(ors) I Cis(i)pa[d(ensium)] / [[Maximiniana]] / devota numini / maiestatiq(ue) eius / d(e) p(ecunis) quaestur(ae) de/dicante Domitio An/[t]igono cl(arissimo) v(iro) leg(ato) Aug(usti) pr(o) p[r(aetore)]

So the name, and the identity, is perhaps the same. Though the emperor is surely Maximinus Thrax, not Maxentius! :-)

- Nathan