Nubia's Roman Garrison
by Michael P. Speidel, Honolulu,
Hawaii
Contents
|
| Introduction |
768 |
| I. Strategy: Protecting Egypt from the South. The Three Cohorts
at Syene as the Garrison of Nubia |
770 |
| II. The Command on the Nubian Frontier |
776 |
| III. The Units |
783 |
1. Ala Commagenorum? |
784 |
2. Cohors I Flavia Cilicum equitata |
785 |
3. Cohors Facundi |
785 |
4. Cohors I Hispanorum equitata |
786 |
5. Cohors II Ituraeorum equitata |
786 |
6. Cohors I Augusta Praetoria Lusitanorum
equitata |
787 |
7. Cohors Sabini |
787 |
8. Cohors I Thebaeorum equitata |
787 |
9. Cohors I Thracum equitata? |
788 |
10. Cohors II Thracum equitata |
788 |
| IV. Appendices |
789 |
1. Inscriptions from Dendür and Talmis
|
789 |
A. Inscription from near a tower 1.5 km upstream from Dendur
on the West bank |
789 |
B. Inscription from near a tower 1.5 km upstream from Talmis
on the West bank |
790 |
C. Inscription from the same rock as B |
791 |
D. A dedication from the temple at Talmis |
792 |
2. Ala Vocontiorum, not ala
Commagenorum on an Ostracon of A.D. 165 |
792 |
3. Troops from Syene at Oxyrhynchos and in
the Fayum in AD. 204/5 |
794 |
| V. Conclusion |
795 |
| VI. Bibliography |
795 |
| List of Illustrations |
798 |
