01-31-2013, 07:07 PM
Cohors I Thracvm / Cohors Primae Thracum- The First Cohort of Thracians is attested on six - possibly seven - inscriptions on stone recovered from the site, two of which have dated to the end of the second century (vide supra) and the beginning of the third (vide infra). The regiment was originally recruited from among the tribes of the Roman province of Thracia, modern Bulgaria.
This regiment was originally recruited from among the tribes of the Roman province of Thrace, modern Bulgaria, and were believed to have been first stationed in Britain at the Wroxeter auxiliary fort, just to the south of the city of Viriconium, where the tombstone of a trooper in the "Thracian Cohort" was discovered. This part-mounted unit were an ideal choice to man this important crossing of the River Severn and were probably stationed here during the early campaigns of the governor Ostorius Scapula. They were involved in the building of Hadrian's Wall during the AD120's, and are later attested at the Bowes fort in county Durham in the early third century.
Evidence for the Cohort in Britain
Burn 95; CIL XVI.48 ; military diploma, dated: January 19th AD103.
Burn 100; CIL XVI.65 military diploma dated: July 17th AD122.
L' Année Épigraphique 1997.1001 diploma dated 27th February AD158,
Wroxeter (RIB 291 tombstone with cohort numeral missing),
Hadrian's Wall between Newcastle & Benwell (RIB 1323),
Birdoswald (RIB 1909; B.I. shared with Cohors I Aelia Dacorum; dated: AD205-20 ,
Bowes (RIB 730 altar AD197-202; et 732-734; et 740 AD205-208; et 741),
This regiment was originally recruited from among the tribes of the Roman province of Thrace, modern Bulgaria, and were believed to have been first stationed in Britain at the Wroxeter auxiliary fort, just to the south of the city of Viriconium, where the tombstone of a trooper in the "Thracian Cohort" was discovered. This part-mounted unit were an ideal choice to man this important crossing of the River Severn and were probably stationed here during the early campaigns of the governor Ostorius Scapula. They were involved in the building of Hadrian's Wall during the AD120's, and are later attested at the Bowes fort in county Durham in the early third century.
Evidence for the Cohort in Britain
Burn 95; CIL XVI.48 ; military diploma, dated: January 19th AD103.
Burn 100; CIL XVI.65 military diploma dated: July 17th AD122.
L' Année Épigraphique 1997.1001 diploma dated 27th February AD158,
Wroxeter (RIB 291 tombstone with cohort numeral missing),
Hadrian's Wall between Newcastle & Benwell (RIB 1323),
Birdoswald (RIB 1909; B.I. shared with Cohors I Aelia Dacorum; dated: AD205-20 ,
Bowes (RIB 730 altar AD197-202; et 732-734; et 740 AD205-208; et 741),
