DOI Artikel:
Mirković, Miroslava: The roster of the VII Claudia legion: some refelctions about the number of the yearly discharged soldiers
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41866#0067
Miroslava Mirkovic
Beograd
THE ROSTER OF THE VII CLAUDIA LEGION:
SOME REFLECTIONS ABOUT THE NUMBER
OF THE YEARLY DISCHARGED SOLDIERS
A marble block measuring 51 x 30 x 48 cm, inscribed on the front side, is
newly discovered and exposed in the Museum of Pozarevac. Letters 1.1.1 and
1.5 cm. The inscription represents a so far unknown fragment of the long military
roster CIL III 14507 = IMS II 53 containing names of the soldiers recruited 169
for the legion VII Claudia and discharged 195.
The new fragment brings changes to the number of the discharged soldiers
from the legion VII Claudia 195. The total number of preserved names would be
244 which is close to the calculation made by A.v. Premerstein and N. Vulic, the
editors of the text in Jahreshefte des Osterreichischen Archaologischen Instituts
4, 1901, Beibl. 82-96. Their calculation of the numbers on the front and the right
sides could be exact, but as new fragment shows, the number of discharged
soldiers on the left side has been underestimated. If we add the new 63 names to
the known 20 we get the same number as on the two other sides. That means
that the supposed total must have been over 270.
There are very few preserved lists of discharged legionary soldiers known to
date. Only seven from the entire Roman Empire have been discovered: three are
from the Moesian provinces: CIL III 6178 = Inscriptiile din Scythia Minor V,
no. 137, containing the roster of the soldiers enrolled in two subsequent years,
108 and 109 and discharged from the V Macedonica legion 134, have been found
in Troesmis in Moesia Inferior:; two are from Viminacium in Moesia Superior:
CIL III 8110 = IMS II 52, with soldiers enlisted 134 and 135 for the VII Claudia
and dismissed 160; CIL 14507 = IMS 53 with the names of those recruited in
169 for the same legion and discharged 196. Further four laterculi have been
found in North Africa, two in Egypt, AE 1969-70, from Alexandria, containing
a list of the soldiers discharged from the II Trajana legion 157 (recruits from 132
and 133), and CIL III 6580 from Nicopolis near Alexandria, dated from 194,
with the list of those enlisted in 168 for the same legion, and two from Lambaesis
in the province of Numidia, CIL VIII 18067, with the names of those recruited
Beograd
THE ROSTER OF THE VII CLAUDIA LEGION:
SOME REFLECTIONS ABOUT THE NUMBER
OF THE YEARLY DISCHARGED SOLDIERS
A marble block measuring 51 x 30 x 48 cm, inscribed on the front side, is
newly discovered and exposed in the Museum of Pozarevac. Letters 1.1.1 and
1.5 cm. The inscription represents a so far unknown fragment of the long military
roster CIL III 14507 = IMS II 53 containing names of the soldiers recruited 169
for the legion VII Claudia and discharged 195.
The new fragment brings changes to the number of the discharged soldiers
from the legion VII Claudia 195. The total number of preserved names would be
244 which is close to the calculation made by A.v. Premerstein and N. Vulic, the
editors of the text in Jahreshefte des Osterreichischen Archaologischen Instituts
4, 1901, Beibl. 82-96. Their calculation of the numbers on the front and the right
sides could be exact, but as new fragment shows, the number of discharged
soldiers on the left side has been underestimated. If we add the new 63 names to
the known 20 we get the same number as on the two other sides. That means
that the supposed total must have been over 270.
There are very few preserved lists of discharged legionary soldiers known to
date. Only seven from the entire Roman Empire have been discovered: three are
from the Moesian provinces: CIL III 6178 = Inscriptiile din Scythia Minor V,
no. 137, containing the roster of the soldiers enrolled in two subsequent years,
108 and 109 and discharged from the V Macedonica legion 134, have been found
in Troesmis in Moesia Inferior:; two are from Viminacium in Moesia Superior:
CIL III 8110 = IMS II 52, with soldiers enlisted 134 and 135 for the VII Claudia
and dismissed 160; CIL 14507 = IMS 53 with the names of those recruited in
169 for the same legion and discharged 196. Further four laterculi have been
found in North Africa, two in Egypt, AE 1969-70, from Alexandria, containing
a list of the soldiers discharged from the II Trajana legion 157 (recruits from 132
and 133), and CIL III 6580 from Nicopolis near Alexandria, dated from 194,
with the list of those enlisted in 168 for the same legion, and two from Lambaesis
in the province of Numidia, CIL VIII 18067, with the names of those recruited