09-13-2017, 12:48 PM
Here is my hypothesis:
The Tagma Scholarii is not the units known as Scholae Palatinae. The Tagma in question is named Scholarii:
From Warren Treadgold Byzantium and its Army:
The Tagmata of Constantine V
To limit the power of the Opsician Theme, Constantine put up several units called tagmata or regiments, which he made distinct from all the themes. Three senior tagmata, the Scholae, Excubitores, and Watch, had the names of old companies of guards, but Constantine turned them into crack cavalry regiments.
The CP says that an arithmon named Candidati is formed from the tagma named Scholarii.
The schola of the Arithmon named Candidati is either called juniors or seniors, or as I reckon the Arithmon named Candidati has two scholae since the one implies the other: the Juniors and the Seniors. These scholae are probably the units known as Scholae Palatinae.
George and Cedrenus says that Gordianus III formed the Candidates AND Protectores. So my theory is that from the Tagma named Scholarii, two units of Arithmoi are formed: the Arithmon named Candidati, and the Arithmon named Protectores. Both these Arithmoi each forms two Scholae Palatinae.
1 Tagma named Scholarii, two Arithmoi named Candidati and Protectores, 4 Scholae Palatinae of which two Juniors and two Seniors.
So, is there any example of a cavalry arithmon in the third century AD? Yes there is: :
P.Oxy. 41 2951 26. Mai 267
http://papyri.info/ddbdp/chla;47;1415
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(19) ἀριθμοῦ καταφράκτων
Corentin Mea(page 394) says this arithmon was part of the ALA NOVA FIRMA MILLIARIA CATAFRACTARIA.
You can find the thesis here:
https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01135338/file/These_Corentin_MEA.pdf
[url=https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01135338/file/These_Corentin_MEA.pdf]
It contains a very impressive list of all the cavalry units( Alae, cohors equitatae, equites) and its officers, and a list of 750 inscriptions.
Nathan Ross: So - is there any certain dated reference to one of these equites units prior to Diocletian?
22. B RIXIA (Brescia, Italie) Base (82 x 25 x ? cm) conservée au musée de Brescia. CIL, V, 4320 (InscrIt, X, 5, 104 [photo]) ; G. Migliorati, 2007, Epigraphica 69, p.424-429 (AE 2007, 642). Lecture de Migliorati :
Imp(eratori) [Caes(ari)] | L(ucio) Do[mitio] | Aur[eliano] | Pio Fe[lic(i) Inuic]|to Au[g(usto), p(ontifi) m(aximo), trib(unicia)] | pot(estate), p(atri) [p(atriae), co(n)s(uli), proco(n)s(uli)], | M(arcus) Au[relius ?] | Rufin[ianus ( ?)] | p(rae)p(ositus) n(umeri) e[q(uitum) Dalm(atarum) ?] | Fort[ensium ?].
Date : 270-271 p. C. d’après la titulature d’Aurélien. Remarques : Selon Migliorati, Marcus Aurelius Rufinianus aurait voulu commémorer la victoire d’Aurélien en Lombardie contre les Alamans qui avaient dévasté le territoire de Brescia.
The Tagma Scholarii is not the units known as Scholae Palatinae. The Tagma in question is named Scholarii:
From Warren Treadgold Byzantium and its Army:
The Tagmata of Constantine V
To limit the power of the Opsician Theme, Constantine put up several units called tagmata or regiments, which he made distinct from all the themes. Three senior tagmata, the Scholae, Excubitores, and Watch, had the names of old companies of guards, but Constantine turned them into crack cavalry regiments.
The CP says that an arithmon named Candidati is formed from the tagma named Scholarii.
The schola of the Arithmon named Candidati is either called juniors or seniors, or as I reckon the Arithmon named Candidati has two scholae since the one implies the other: the Juniors and the Seniors. These scholae are probably the units known as Scholae Palatinae.
George and Cedrenus says that Gordianus III formed the Candidates AND Protectores. So my theory is that from the Tagma named Scholarii, two units of Arithmoi are formed: the Arithmon named Candidati, and the Arithmon named Protectores. Both these Arithmoi each forms two Scholae Palatinae.
1 Tagma named Scholarii, two Arithmoi named Candidati and Protectores, 4 Scholae Palatinae of which two Juniors and two Seniors.
So, is there any example of a cavalry arithmon in the third century AD? Yes there is: :
P.Oxy. 41 2951 26. Mai 267
http://papyri.info/ddbdp/chla;47;1415
[/url]
(19) ἀριθμοῦ καταφράκτων
Corentin Mea(page 394) says this arithmon was part of the ALA NOVA FIRMA MILLIARIA CATAFRACTARIA.
You can find the thesis here:
https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01135338/file/These_Corentin_MEA.pdf
[url=https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01135338/file/These_Corentin_MEA.pdf]
It contains a very impressive list of all the cavalry units( Alae, cohors equitatae, equites) and its officers, and a list of 750 inscriptions.
Nathan Ross: So - is there any certain dated reference to one of these equites units prior to Diocletian?
22. B RIXIA (Brescia, Italie) Base (82 x 25 x ? cm) conservée au musée de Brescia. CIL, V, 4320 (InscrIt, X, 5, 104 [photo]) ; G. Migliorati, 2007, Epigraphica 69, p.424-429 (AE 2007, 642). Lecture de Migliorati :
Imp(eratori) [Caes(ari)] | L(ucio) Do[mitio] | Aur[eliano] | Pio Fe[lic(i) Inuic]|to Au[g(usto), p(ontifi) m(aximo), trib(unicia)] | pot(estate), p(atri) [p(atriae), co(n)s(uli), proco(n)s(uli)], | M(arcus) Au[relius ?] | Rufin[ianus ( ?)] | p(rae)p(ositus) n(umeri) e[q(uitum) Dalm(atarum) ?] | Fort[ensium ?].
Date : 270-271 p. C. d’après la titulature d’Aurélien. Remarques : Selon Migliorati, Marcus Aurelius Rufinianus aurait voulu commémorer la victoire d’Aurélien en Lombardie contre les Alamans qui avaient dévasté le territoire de Brescia.
