10-18-2007, 02:58 PM
OK, I haven't looked exhaustively, but...
The best analysis I could find was in Speidel's book on the singulares (Guards of the Roman Armies, 1978, Bonn). Speidel dates him to the 2nd/3rd century, and his description (below) is taken from pages 77-78. I'll just type away:
"Victorinius Longinus had served with the ala II Flavia at Aquilea (Heidenheim) or Aalen before he was detached to the Raetian capital for service in the guard. The ala's arrival in Raetia about AD90 gives a terminus post quem for the inscription. One might be tempted to deduce a terminus ante quem from the fact that the Raetian governor is not termed consularis. A survey of the pertaining inscriptions, however, shows that even the guards of praetorian or consular governors style themselves in the majority of cases simply "singulares" rather than "singulares consularis".
"The reading "al(ae) II Fl(aviae) sing(ularium)" is untenable: there was no such ala.
"Claudius Latinius, the heir, was also singularis of the governor. The rank of aedituus, sacristan of the unit's shrine, is known from the equites singulares Augusti and from cohors XX Palmyrenorum."
I should add that Spaul (ALA2, 1994, Andover) p113 n4, does not accept the existence of the ala II Flavia singularium either (Cichorius did, in RE, sv. 'ala' 1262, but this seems to have been dismissed since). I can't find the other inscription from Ausberg you mention. The only other member (well, we don't have his name, but still) of this ala recorded in an inscription from there is CIL 3.5823: [...de]curioni al(ae) II Fl(auiae) et / [3] co(n)s(ulari) et fl(amini) decorato / [3] [[leg(ionis) III Ital(icae) [3]]] / [3 uiu]us uiuis. The mention of two gravestones in Junkelmann might possibly be a slip for the two singulares in CIL 3.5822, but that's one for you to work out
(the Cichorius passage in RE doesn't help, btw.).
best wishes, and blue skies
Tom
The best analysis I could find was in Speidel's book on the singulares (Guards of the Roman Armies, 1978, Bonn). Speidel dates him to the 2nd/3rd century, and his description (below) is taken from pages 77-78. I'll just type away:
"Victorinius Longinus had served with the ala II Flavia at Aquilea (Heidenheim) or Aalen before he was detached to the Raetian capital for service in the guard. The ala's arrival in Raetia about AD90 gives a terminus post quem for the inscription. One might be tempted to deduce a terminus ante quem from the fact that the Raetian governor is not termed consularis. A survey of the pertaining inscriptions, however, shows that even the guards of praetorian or consular governors style themselves in the majority of cases simply "singulares" rather than "singulares consularis".
"The reading "al(ae) II Fl(aviae) sing(ularium)" is untenable: there was no such ala.
"Claudius Latinius, the heir, was also singularis of the governor. The rank of aedituus, sacristan of the unit's shrine, is known from the equites singulares Augusti and from cohors XX Palmyrenorum."
I should add that Spaul (ALA2, 1994, Andover) p113 n4, does not accept the existence of the ala II Flavia singularium either (Cichorius did, in RE, sv. 'ala' 1262, but this seems to have been dismissed since). I can't find the other inscription from Ausberg you mention. The only other member (well, we don't have his name, but still) of this ala recorded in an inscription from there is CIL 3.5823: [...de]curioni al(ae) II Fl(auiae) et / [3] co(n)s(ulari) et fl(amini) decorato / [3] [[leg(ionis) III Ital(icae) [3]]] / [3 uiu]us uiuis. The mention of two gravestones in Junkelmann might possibly be a slip for the two singulares in CIL 3.5822, but that's one for you to work out
(the Cichorius passage in RE doesn't help, btw.).best wishes, and blue skies
Tom
Tom Wrobel
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