04-27-2018, 07:16 PM
(04-27-2018, 06:38 PM)Ross Cowan Wrote: isn't Coello drawing on Zuckerman's interesting note[url=http://tyche-journal.at/tyche/index.php/tyche/article/view/177/286][/url]
Aha! Yes, now I check I see that Coello does reference Zuckerman's paper, but only as regards the point he makes in the previous sentence (about Duncan-Jones and his estimates), which leaves the connection to the V Mac document unclear...
Thanks for the link - fascinating stuff, and it neatly answers my question about where Coello gets his figure of 340-400 from. I do wonder (assuming the note at the end about the possible daily ration is incorrect) that the numbers might be less that Zuckerman estimates; we know from other documents that V Mac had Augustales (a whole schola of them, whatever that means!), and therefore perhaps also Flaviales, both grades on 3-6 annonae each, who between them could eat up a good chunk of the rations. The actual number of troops in the numerus might well be less than 300.
Nathan Ross