02-25-2016, 03:26 PM
There have been some papers about the Perge fragments that have appeared on the Academia website. I think the main debate will arise when Philip Rance publishes the English translation of Onur's complete work on the Fragments.
Coello does include the caveat in his work that should remind us that his is not an exhaustive source and that new evidence such as Onur's Perge fragments could well add more to the mix.
As far as I am aware Onur originally thought that the fragments related to what he called a 'double-strength' legion because the existing paradigm has it that legions were only around 1000-1200 men strong, a paradigm strongly influenced by Coello. However, Onur appears to have changed his stance in that the fragments clearly show it was a 'normal' legion, so Onur feels that it may be a Palatine one which may have been kept to full strength. Of course having legions at between 1400-1700 strong around 500AD is not part of the accepted paradigm at all, no siree!
I don't think the RAT Facebook group is having much of an influence here, there are not that many posts each day there, and people can post stuff on FB that is not very relevant, stuff they would not be able to get away with on this forum.
Coello does include the caveat in his work that should remind us that his is not an exhaustive source and that new evidence such as Onur's Perge fragments could well add more to the mix.
As far as I am aware Onur originally thought that the fragments related to what he called a 'double-strength' legion because the existing paradigm has it that legions were only around 1000-1200 men strong, a paradigm strongly influenced by Coello. However, Onur appears to have changed his stance in that the fragments clearly show it was a 'normal' legion, so Onur feels that it may be a Palatine one which may have been kept to full strength. Of course having legions at between 1400-1700 strong around 500AD is not part of the accepted paradigm at all, no siree!
I don't think the RAT Facebook group is having much of an influence here, there are not that many posts each day there, and people can post stuff on FB that is not very relevant, stuff they would not be able to get away with on this forum.
Adrian Coombs-Hoar