05-31-2013, 11:50 AM
Hi Mark,
All your suggestion can be right and wrong! Fact is, we don't know. With Herculis, this can indeed refer to a militia from that town, or to a vexillation from a town named after the garisson.. we just can't be sure.
About shield designs though, I doubt that vexillationes retained the same pattern, but I can't back up why. I just presume that unit, especially after becoming independent entities, also have their own typical shield design.
The Herculiani werea palatine legion, the Ursarienses were comitatenses, as were the Fortenses.
All your suggestion can be right and wrong! Fact is, we don't know. With Herculis, this can indeed refer to a militia from that town, or to a vexillation from a town named after the garisson.. we just can't be sure.
About shield designs though, I doubt that vexillationes retained the same pattern, but I can't back up why. I just presume that unit, especially after becoming independent entities, also have their own typical shield design.
The Herculiani werea palatine legion, the Ursarienses were comitatenses, as were the Fortenses.
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
