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Late Roman Army Grade/Rank List under Anastasius
(04-16-2015, 04:38 PM)markusaurelius Wrote: Interesting stuff.  Is there a list of these 1200 soldiers names? Would make for an interesting insite into the more "common" names of the period

I was reminded of this question by another late Roman military inscription I came across recently. CIL III, 14214,24 appears to be a list of men in a cavalry unit (or units) based in Moesia, probably dating from the 4th-5th century. There's a page about it here in Romanian (number 272), with images of the original (click on the amphora icons).

The inscription lists five different ranks: eques, circitor, exarchus and exarchus bis, together with castricianus or castrianus. The page above appears to suggest (I can't read Romanian!) that these latter were men based at castra or castella. I did wonder whether castrianus might be a comparable sort of position in a cavalry unit to veredarius in an infantry one.

I would guess that most, or all, of these men would have had the imperial nomen Flavius. Interestingly, several in list C have eastern names - Abbas, Herodes, Barsames.

A. Titianus / Valentinus / Ursicinus / Ianuarius / circit(ores) / Ursinus / Concordius //
B. Maxi[mus] / castri[ciani] / Valen[s] / Iovin[us] / Iuliu[s] / Dard[anus] / equite[s] //
C. Abbas / Herodes / Abbas / Ad[a]viu[s] / Bersum[es] / Barsam[es] / Theote[cnus] / Anatoli[us] / Quart[us] / Mar[cianus] / Puti[us] / Bon[osus] / circit[ores] / Para[tus] //
D. ]ASIRI[ ] / [ ]OABENSI[ ] / [ ]SCUPS[ ] / [ ]ANI PP[ ] / [ ]MEOVIT[ ] / [ ]VISLECT[ //

E. Bis exarchi / Carinus / Barbatio / Diog<e>nianus / exarchi / Dicebalus / Faustinu[s] //
F. [M]aximi[anus] / [M]aximus / [Ia]nuarius / [ ]SCO[ ] / [ ] et [ ] / [ ]s [
Nathan Ross
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