Zodiac and Late Roman Army Organisation

[Robert Vermaat]

Robert Vermaat wrote: I have never, EVER, come across a structure such as this hypothesis, in any Late Roman unit. IF this would have been the case, we would at some point have found a description of a soldier being either this or that, serving in the same unit. We haven’t.Do you mean we have no idea of what troop types the units in the Late Roman army are composed of?

To the contrary, we do.
I meant that, while we see inscriptions from all sorts of ranks and grades within one unit, we have never found anything like your subdivision WITHIN ONE UNIT of a subdivision into iuniores and seniores, or a vertical organisation into troop types named exculatores, lanciarii and more lanciarii. Seniores are always in another unit from the iuniores (it's not even clear what exactly they represent). Exculcatores are never a specialism within one unit. If they were, we'd need at least several soldiers from one unit describing themselves as either an exculcator, or a lanciarius, or what have you. They don't. We have a number of specialisms, and Vegetius, the Perge inscription and Lydus mention a great deal of them, but exculcatores are not among them.