10-09-2013, 02:39 PM
Quote:Rennie post=344842 Wrote:Also I uploaded a picture of a Numerus and a Centinarius, to what unit may that shield belong, it's text says that it was found on a mural in sicily.Just to clarify, a 'numerus' is not a soldier but a unit type of unspecified size (pl. numeri). The soldier in Graham Sumners painting is a 'member of an unspecified numerus', not a numerus himself.
The 'centinarius' should be 'centenarius', the late Roman version of the centurio in the new style units from Diocletian onwards.
Well Centenarius only occurs in Limitanei. In the Comitatenses and Palatina the title was Ordinarius.
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