Here is an overview
of elements forming an eastern option for the early Severan period.
Syria
Legiones (12,000 legionnaires, 72 ballistae)
III Gallica, 4 x 4Bd, 1 x Art
IV Scythica, 4 x 4Bd, 1 x Art
XVI Flavia. 4 x 4Bd, 1 x Art
Auxilia (3,000 cavalry, 1,075 mounted infantry,
7,000 infantry, total: 16,500)
Alae
II Flavia Agrippiana, from Lugdunensis , 1 x 3Cv
I Praetoria C. R., unknown origin, 1 x
3Cv
III Thracum, from Thrace, 1 x
3Cv
Thracum Herculania M., from Thrace, 2 x 3Cv
I Ulpia Singularium , raised by Trajan, 1 x
3Cv
Cohortes
I Ascalonitanorum S., from Judaea, 1 x 4Bw
I Flavia Chalcidenorum S.E., from Syria 1 x 4Bw
II Classica S., from the Fleet, 1
x 4Bw
I Ulpia Dacorum, from Dacia, 1 x
4Ax
VII Gallorum, from Lugdenensis, 1 x
4Ax
I Lucensium E., from Tarraconensis, 1 x
4Ax
IV Lucensium E., from Tarraconensis, 1 x 4Ax
I Ulpia Petraeorum M.E., from Arabia, 2 x
4Ax
V Ulpia Petraeorum M.E., from Arabia, 2 x
4Ax
I Claudia Sugambrorum, from Spain, 1 x 4Ax
I Sugambrorum E., from Spain, 1 x
4Ax
II Thracum Syriaca E., from Thrace, 1 x
4Ax
III Augusta Thracum E., from Thrace, 1 x
4Ax
Equites units will be grouped to create 3 x
2LH
To supplement the above, a further 3 x
2LH
are Equites Indigenae, Itauranorum, and Arabae.
A formidable force!
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