11-20-2012, 03:50 PM
Malone implies the VV may have post dated the campaign considerably;
"It seems clear that the Fourteenth Legion gained it’s titles Martia Victrix in recognition of this victory over the Iceni. The apparent parallel of the titles Valeria Victrix suggests the possibility that the Twentieth received this honorific for it’s contribution. However the Legion was not present in full strength and Ritterling was firmly of the opinion that such honorifics were bestowed upon the Aquila as the personification of the legion and could not be won by a mere vexillation, but only if the entire legion had earned the glory. The discovery of precisely dates document at Carlisle in which the cognomina are omitted raises the possibility that as at 7 Nov 83, legio XX had yet to receive the award. A later, Agricolan, context is possible and will be considered in more detail below……”
(Malone - Legio XX Valeria Victrix BAR S1491 2006, pg42)
The Carlisle ref is Tomblin 1992 "The Twentieth Legion at Wroxeter and Carlisle in the First Century: The Epigrahic Evidence" Britannia 23, 141-58
"It seems clear that the Fourteenth Legion gained it’s titles Martia Victrix in recognition of this victory over the Iceni. The apparent parallel of the titles Valeria Victrix suggests the possibility that the Twentieth received this honorific for it’s contribution. However the Legion was not present in full strength and Ritterling was firmly of the opinion that such honorifics were bestowed upon the Aquila as the personification of the legion and could not be won by a mere vexillation, but only if the entire legion had earned the glory. The discovery of precisely dates document at Carlisle in which the cognomina are omitted raises the possibility that as at 7 Nov 83, legio XX had yet to receive the award. A later, Agricolan, context is possible and will be considered in more detail below……”
(Malone - Legio XX Valeria Victrix BAR S1491 2006, pg42)
The Carlisle ref is Tomblin 1992 "The Twentieth Legion at Wroxeter and Carlisle in the First Century: The Epigrahic Evidence" Britannia 23, 141-58
