08-25-2016, 11:07 AM
A nice article that floated by yesterday gave me some additional questions:
Amin Benaissa: A recruit’s enrolment in a military unit and a new dux Thebaidis, in: Mélanges Jean Gascou: textes et études papyrologiques (P.Gascou), Travaux et Mémoires du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance 20/1 (Paris 2016). pp 55-64:
https://www.academia.edu/27956832/A_Recr..._Thebaidis
It's about a probatoria of a new recruit for the Mauri Scutarii stationed in Hermopolis in 514. Interesting is that the papyrus is signed by the acturarius of the unit, but countersigned by the eight (!) senior officers (priores) of the unit. The only literate being the ordinarius et auditor.
So any idea who these 8 priores were? Do they fit with our current view of the unit?
Also by the same author a very intersting article about some officers being styled 'magister' (primi as well as secundi), are also attested as officiales on the staff of the dux of the Thebaid in some documents from the archive of Dioscorus of Aphrodito: https://www.academia.edu/1005431/An_Arsi...itary_Unit
Amin Benaissa: A recruit’s enrolment in a military unit and a new dux Thebaidis, in: Mélanges Jean Gascou: textes et études papyrologiques (P.Gascou), Travaux et Mémoires du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance 20/1 (Paris 2016). pp 55-64:
https://www.academia.edu/27956832/A_Recr..._Thebaidis
It's about a probatoria of a new recruit for the Mauri Scutarii stationed in Hermopolis in 514. Interesting is that the papyrus is signed by the acturarius of the unit, but countersigned by the eight (!) senior officers (priores) of the unit. The only literate being the ordinarius et auditor.
So any idea who these 8 priores were? Do they fit with our current view of the unit?
Also by the same author a very intersting article about some officers being styled 'magister' (primi as well as secundi), are also attested as officiales on the staff of the dux of the Thebaid in some documents from the archive of Dioscorus of Aphrodito: https://www.academia.edu/1005431/An_Arsi...itary_Unit
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
