The Cohors IV Tungrorum mill eq was an
Auxilia
The (, lit. "auxiliaries") were introduced as non-citizen troops attached to the citizen legions by Augustus after his reorganisation of the Imperial Roman army from 30 BC. By the 2nd century, the Auxilia contained the same number of inf ...
ry
cohort of the
Roman Army
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based in
Abusina
Abusina or Abusena was a Roman castra (military outpost), and later of town, of the Roman Province of Raetia.
It was at Eining near Abensberg, on the Upper German- Raetian Limes , which at this point was the Danube River. Abusina stood near ...
during the second century. It had a strength of 1040 soldiers.
It was named for
Civitas Tungrorum and by the rule of
Antoninus Pius was stationed in
Mauretania Tingitana where it is attested from an inscription of about 140 AD. The regiment having twice the soldiers of a standard
quingenaria unit, and were mainly
Raetians from
Tungri. There was also a
veteran unit.
Inscription evidence tells us under
Domitian the unit was also in
Noricum and then later in
Raetia, possibly at
Faimingen.
Known members
*Tribunus T Claudius Zeno.
[Marc Lodewijckx, Archaeological and Historical Aspects of West-European Societies ( Leuven University Press, 1996) p129.]
See also
*
List of Roman auxiliary regiments
References
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Roman Empire