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Two New Items in the Army List of Roman Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

R. P. Wright
Affiliation:
University of Durham

Extract

A fresh study of the diplomas found in Roman Britain for The Roman Inscriptions of Britain vol. II has produced further evidence for two new contingents. It may be helpful to other scholars if the evidence for these additions to the Army List is made available without awaiting the general publication.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright ©R. P. Wright 1964. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

1 EE III 120, IV, p. 205, VII, 1119; CIL XVI, 88, suppl. p. 215.

2 CIL VII, 1193, XVI, 48.

3 Pryce, , JRS XX (1930), 16Google Scholar; CIL XVI, 69.

4 CIL VII, 1195, XVI 70, pl. IV a.

5 CIL III, p. 872, dipl. XXX.

6 CIL VII, 1195.

7 The terminal letter in the line is not an ill-cut X, but the letter P with most of the loop still surviving and with the serif meant to form the foot of the letter placed half-way up the stem.

8 CIL III, 600 (Byllis, Macedonia), ILS 2724.

9 PW IV (1900), s.v. ‘cohors’, col. 346. He considered that the same unit was mentioned on a papyrus document (BGU 142) of A.D. 159, which records a trooper ἐκ σπείρης β‘ Οὐλπία(ς).

10 JRS XX (1930), 23.