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- Title
Ala Parthorum i ala Pannoniorum na natpisima iz Salone.
- Authors
Matijević, Ivan
- Abstract
The paper is dedicated to the Salonitan stele of the decurion [Tiberius] Julius Maximus from ala Parthorum (CIL 3, 8746; EDH HD050401) and the stele of the duplicarius Cloutius from ala Pannoniorum (CIL 3, 2016; EDH HD054712) as the only epigraphic confirmations of these auxiliary cavalry units in the Roman province of Dalmatia. The prevailing opinion is that they should be dated to the closing years of the Augustan era or the early years of the reign of Tiberius. It is suggested that these cavalry units were posted in the immediate vicinity of Salona in the years following the Pannonian-Dalmatian uprising (6-9 AD). The discovery of the stele of Maximus at Pleštine, southwest of the Klis mountain pass, may indicate that this was exactly where ala Parthorum, or a part of it, was positioned with the task of securing the communication route between Salona and the mainland. The author discusses the social status and origin of the decurion [Tiberius] Julius Maximus, the son of Gaius Julius Tiridates, a Roman-born member of the Parthian aristocracy. The duplicarius Cloutius, the son of Clutamus, came from the Asturian Susarri people of southwest Hispania and was not the only Hispanian admitted at the time to the unit originally composed of Pannonian cavalrymen. The author attempts to determine the time when the alae left Dalmatia. At roughly the beginning of the reign of Tiberius, ala Pannoniorum was transferred to Pannonia, where it kept watch over the roads to the camp in Arrabona. The ala Parthorum was believed to have been transferred to Germania in the first half of the 1st century, where it was confirmed as ala Parthorum et Araborum, but more recent finds from Pisoraca suggest that it was transferred to northwest Hispania at the outset of the Claudian era.
- Subjects
GERMANY; SOCIAL status; UNITS of time; CAVALRY; MOUNTAINS; SONS; ARISTOCRACY (Social class); MESOLITHIC Period
- Publication
Vjesnik za Arheologiju i Historiju Dalmatinsku, 2019, Vol 112, Issue 1, p71
- ISSN
1849-5672
- Publication type
Article