DOI Artikel:
Mirković, Miroslava: The Legio VIII Augusta in the Balkans
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41276#0092
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Lower Danube and placed under the command of the Moesian legatus; 3. How to
explain the monuments of the soldiers and veterans in the Balkans in the 3rd
century.
The VIII Augusta in Illyricum: Pannonia or Dalraatia?
The following inscriptions of soldiers and veterans of the legio VIII Augusta
come from Illyricum:
Pannonia:
Poetovio: CIL III 4060, 10878, 10879; AE 1934; 224.
Emona: CIL III 3845, a veteran settled by deduction 34 BC?4
Savaria: CIL II 4188 = 10921, veteran, born in Verona.
Inscriptions of men of the same legion in Aąuileia would datę from the same
time,5 as well as an inscription from Virunum, CIL III 4858 {ąuaestor veteranorum)
and from Celea, CIL III 5220 (a soldier from Verona) in Noricum.
Dalmatia:
The following inscriptions datę from the first century:
Soldiers: Albona: CIL III 3051; Burnum: A. Betz, Untersuchungen zur Militar-
geschichte der rómischen Provinz Dalmatien, 1938, p. 72 = A. et J. Saśel, ILJug.
III 2818;
Letna near Duvno, Saśel, ILJug. 7/785 (Altar dedicated to Mars);
Veterans: Nedinum: CIL III 2865 (between Jader and Asseria); Albona: CIL III
3051;
Curictae (Omisalj on the island ofKrk): CIL III 3127.
The next inscriptions belong to a later period, probably the second century, and
were found in the Dalmatian interior, in the surroundings of present-day Sarajevo
(at Gradac): CIL III 8375 = 12749 Aurelius Super veteranus ex 1 eg. VIII Aug. and
CIL III 2766, at Svirkovo near Sarajevo (T. Aur. Maximus, veteranus) and an
inscription from Salona, CIL III 14692: Aureli us ...s duplic arius leg VIIIp.f.
Ali inscriptions from western Pannonia, from Noricum and from Aąuileia are
from the first century. There is a generał consensus in the modern historiography
that they are evidence that the VIII Augusta belonged to the Pannonian army after
the division of Illyricum into two provinces and had a permanent camp at Poetovio.6
First century monuments predominate among the inscriptions from Dalmatia, but
there are also later ones. C. Patsch assumes that the legion or part of it was in
Dalmatia around the middle of the second century, because of a rebellion in the
north of the province at the time of Antoninus Pius;7 Ritterling also thinks that
inscriptions and bricks from Dalmatia cannot datę from Augustus’ reign and prefers
to place them in the time of the Marcomannic Wars of Marcus Aurelius.8 A. Betz
Lower Danube and placed under the command of the Moesian legatus; 3. How to
explain the monuments of the soldiers and veterans in the Balkans in the 3rd
century.
The VIII Augusta in Illyricum: Pannonia or Dalraatia?
The following inscriptions of soldiers and veterans of the legio VIII Augusta
come from Illyricum:
Pannonia:
Poetovio: CIL III 4060, 10878, 10879; AE 1934; 224.
Emona: CIL III 3845, a veteran settled by deduction 34 BC?4
Savaria: CIL II 4188 = 10921, veteran, born in Verona.
Inscriptions of men of the same legion in Aąuileia would datę from the same
time,5 as well as an inscription from Virunum, CIL III 4858 {ąuaestor veteranorum)
and from Celea, CIL III 5220 (a soldier from Verona) in Noricum.
Dalmatia:
The following inscriptions datę from the first century:
Soldiers: Albona: CIL III 3051; Burnum: A. Betz, Untersuchungen zur Militar-
geschichte der rómischen Provinz Dalmatien, 1938, p. 72 = A. et J. Saśel, ILJug.
III 2818;
Letna near Duvno, Saśel, ILJug. 7/785 (Altar dedicated to Mars);
Veterans: Nedinum: CIL III 2865 (between Jader and Asseria); Albona: CIL III
3051;
Curictae (Omisalj on the island ofKrk): CIL III 3127.
The next inscriptions belong to a later period, probably the second century, and
were found in the Dalmatian interior, in the surroundings of present-day Sarajevo
(at Gradac): CIL III 8375 = 12749 Aurelius Super veteranus ex 1 eg. VIII Aug. and
CIL III 2766, at Svirkovo near Sarajevo (T. Aur. Maximus, veteranus) and an
inscription from Salona, CIL III 14692: Aureli us ...s duplic arius leg VIIIp.f.
Ali inscriptions from western Pannonia, from Noricum and from Aąuileia are
from the first century. There is a generał consensus in the modern historiography
that they are evidence that the VIII Augusta belonged to the Pannonian army after
the division of Illyricum into two provinces and had a permanent camp at Poetovio.6
First century monuments predominate among the inscriptions from Dalmatia, but
there are also later ones. C. Patsch assumes that the legion or part of it was in
Dalmatia around the middle of the second century, because of a rebellion in the
north of the province at the time of Antoninus Pius;7 Ritterling also thinks that
inscriptions and bricks from Dalmatia cannot datę from Augustus’ reign and prefers
to place them in the time of the Marcomannic Wars of Marcus Aurelius.8 A. Betz