Original scientific paper
Equestrian officers and legionary centurions (with the inscription CIL 3, 8736 from Salona)
Nikola Cesarik
orcid.org/0000-0002-0128-0687
; Croatian academy of sciences and arts, Institute for Historical and Social Sciences in Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
Abstract
The Claudian introduction of equestrian militiae separated careers of equestrian officers from those of legionary centurions and primipilares, thus reorganising the previous system in which legionary centurions and primipilares were appointed as commanders of auxiliary units. However, rare inscriptions show that – from the time of Claudius onwards – still appear those who, besides legionary centurionate, also held equestrian militiae. Since one of such inscriptions originates from Salona (CIL 3, 8739), it is argued whether the equestrian militia was held after the legionary centurionate; or, perhaps, it was the other way around.
Keywords
Roman army; equestrian militae; legionary centurions; Bovianum Undecumanorum
Hrčak ID:
226918
URI
Publication date:
30.10.2019.
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