Report of a Military Unit (acta diurna vel nocturna)
Fragments of a morning (or night) report of a military unit, perhaps the cohors I Numidarum, giving day by day the number of soldiers present, sent on a mission or assigned to various duties
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42957
Morning report of a military unit with copy of a letter on an acclamation TM 42957Unknown place(First half of the) IIIrd century A.D.
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Fragments of a Latin daily report of a Roman military unit in Egypt, perhaps the First Cohort of Numidians, recording soldiers present, on guard or on detached duty and the officers who received orders. The other side preserves a copy of a letter describing an event in August, apparently troops including a legion and the ala veterana Gallica saluting someone and swearing obedience, possibly a new emperor.
In English machine translation
[recto, fragment A]
[…]
[…] of the city […]
[…] to the cities […]
[…] Sarapion […]
[…] prefect (?) […]
[…] first […] soldiers 1
Aprius Ammonianus, centurion, the watchword […]
[…]
[…]
[…] Faustius (?) […]
[…] on watch […]
[…] among these […]
[…]
[recto, fragment B]
[…]
[…] announced that [orders] were to be received […]
[…] ready to keep watch […]
[…] of Ammonianus […]
[…] of the standard-bearers (?) […]
[…] of Isidoros […]
[…] the rest present […]
[…] guards of the bath-house […]
[…] camel-rider 1; the rest at the standards […]
[…] among these 4 centurions, 1 decurion […]
[…] soldiers, number 10 […]
[…] to Aurelius Ammonianus, centurion […]
[…] Diosdoros son of Didymachos […]
[…] announced that [orders] were to be received […]
[…] Aprius Ammonianus […]
[…] among these […] 1 cavalryman, Amm[…] […]
[…]
[…]
[recto, fragment C]
[…]
[…] the rest present […]
[…] guards of the bath-house 2 […]
[…] the rest at the standards […]
[…] among these 3 centurions, [decurions] […]
[…] First Cohort of Numidians […]
[…] Severianus […]
[…]
[recto, fragment D]
[…] cohort […]
[recto, fragments E and F]
[…]
[verso, fragment A, column 1]
[…]
[…] Arab
[…]
[…] dismissed (?) […]
[…] 4
[…]
[…]
[…]
[…] Julius Alexander […]
[…]
[verso, fragment A, column 2]
[…]
5 days before the Ides of August […]
[…] legion […]
[…]
[verso, fragment B]
[…]
[…] from the [day before (?)] the Ides of August to 5 days before the same Ides […]
[…] 4 days before the Ides of August […]
singulares of the consul (?) […]
[…] supplied (?) […]
[…]
[…]
proceedings; copy of a letter […]
on that day at home […]
or holidays […]
[…] saluted in the city […]
[…]
was present again […]
in the inner shrine of the Serapeum (?) […]
in the shrine of the eagle […]
[…]
[…]
at that ninth hour […]
breaking out (?), if […]
saluted immediately […]
at the ninth hour the headquarters […]
of Roman citizens, loyal and faithful, the aforesaid, until […]
disregarded; having returned […]
[…] of the legionaries […]
[…] he came forward, the prefect […]
centuria […] crossing over […]
the ala veterana Gallica and that prefect […]
the tesserarii swore immediately in […]
[…] and announced […]
'whatever is ordered, we shall do' […]
[verso, fragment C]
[…]
[…] 41
[…] 91
[…] 2
[…] 7
[…]
[verso, fragments D to F]
[…] centuria […]
[…]
The interpretation of the verso as an attempted acclamation of a new emperor is conjectural; the records date it to the second quarter of the 3rd century. Many readings are very uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Report of a Military Unit (acta diurna vel nocturna)). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Report of a Military Unit
Fragments of a journal (morning report?) of a military unit, including the copy of a letter(?) describing the details of some event, perhaps the attempted acclamation of a new emperor by some troops (among which at least a legion and the ala veterana Gallica)
Report of a Military Unit (acta diurna vel nocturna)
Fragments of a morning (or night) report of a military unit, perhaps the cohors I Numidarum, giving day by day the number of soldiers present, sent on a mission or assigned to various duties
Report of a Military Unit
Fragments of a journal (morning report?) of a military unit, including the copy of a letter(?) describing the details of some event, perhaps the attempted acclamation of a new emperor by some troops (among which at least a legion and the ala veterana Gallica)
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