03-09-2014, 12:29 PM
For very late legions/numeri, centurions, ordinarii and Augustales, see the Elephantine papyri:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qdrO1...is&f=false
More discussion in The Patermouthis Archive (http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.0599796.0023.003:03]) and Evidence for the Byzantine Army in the Syene Papyri (http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.0599796.0027.001:19).
IIRC, the latest Elephantine papyrus to mention a 'centurio' dates to AD 613.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qdrO1...is&f=false
More discussion in The Patermouthis Archive (http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.0599796.0023.003:03]) and Evidence for the Byzantine Army in the Syene Papyri (http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.0599796.0027.001:19).
IIRC, the latest Elephantine papyrus to mention a 'centurio' dates to AD 613.