Late Roman Army Grade/Rank List under Anastasius

[Nathan Ross]

the unit is called several times in slab B a legion and her members are "military legionaries".

Thanks!

The technically correct term is the numerus, the epithetos is "legion".

I would say all that this confirms is that 'numerus' was used to designate military a unit of any size and status, as it had been in the 2nd-3rd century. An auxilia palatina unit was a numerus (as shown on many tombstone inscriptions); so too, as we see here, was a legion. This doesn't tell us anything about the numbers involved.

I don't see any implication in this that a former legion had been 'upgraded' to an auxilium - the evidence of the Concordia and other inscriptions suggests that the auxilia had a different rank structure (ducenarius-centenarius-biarchus-etc) that we do not see here.

Meanwhile, I'm still curious about the Veredarii (cavalry, or not?) and the mysterious 'clerici ve deputati'!