04-08-2010, 06:21 PM
Quote:Will that do as an illustration? Or does someone have the stamina for Pannonian units and Thracian units?!It happened that no long ago I read this study on troops with no forts and forts with no troops in Dacia (Dan Matei, "Trupe f?r? castre, castre f?r? trupe în Dacia" in BCSS, 12, 2006, p. 55-70) and has this overview for some Thracian cohortes (I Thracum) serving mostly in Dacia, but also other provinces.
Cohors I Thracum sagittariorum shows in Dacia Superior in diplomas from 136/8 (RMD V 384), 144 (CIL XVI 90), 157? (CIL XVI 107), 158 (CIL XVI 108) and 179 (RMD II 123). A Cohors I Thracum civium Romanorum apparently came from Moesia for the Dacian Wars (e.g. CIL XVI 46 from 100 in Moesia), being attested in Dacia in 109 (RMD III 148) and 110 (CIL XVI 57 and 163). A diploma from 110 (CIL XVI 164) attests a cohors I Thracum cR pia fidelis in Pannonia Inferior which apparently was also in Germania Inferior before that (no diploma in footnote but a reference to G. Alföldy's Die Hilfstruppen der römischen Provinz Germania Inferior, Düsseldorf, 1968, p. 70-71, nr. 26). It is attested in Pannonia Inferior a second time with cR pf in 119 (W. Eck, D. MacDonald, A. Pangerl, "Neue Diplome für Auxiliartruppen in den dakischen Provinzen" in AMN, 38/1, 2001/2003, p. 25-34, nr. 1), and several more times with cR in 144 (RMD V 397), 146 (RMD V 401) and 154/6 (RMD V 415). Also in Pannonia Inferior there's a cohors I Thracum equitata in a diploma from 192 (RMD V 447). There's also a cohors I Thracum (not sure about the other attributes, the author just added "homonymous") in Pannonia Superior present in diplomas from 141 (RMD V 391), 155/6 (RMD V 416), 159 (RMD V 423 and 424) and 161 (RMD V 430 and 431).
Oh, and from our last debate I kept this ZPE article. Read page 191, there are some considerations relevant to the topic.
Drago?
