By Richard Alston
The province of Egypt presents exact archaeological and documentary facts for the learn of the Roman military. during this interesting social background Richard Alston examines the commercial, cultural, social and felony elements of an army profession, illuminating the lifestyles and function of the person soldier within the army.
Soldier and Society in Roman Eygpt presents an entire reassessment of the effect of the Roman military on neighborhood societies, and convincingly demanding situations the orthodox photograph. the warriors are visible now not as an remoted elite dwelling in worry of the neighborhood populations, yet as particularly well-integrated into neighborhood groups. The unsuspected scale of the army's involvement in those groups deals a brand new perception into either Roman rule in Egypt and Roman imperialism extra usually.
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A crisis seems to have led to a rapid increase in the number of troops in a legion which is, in itself, informative. Although the legion represents a large standing force, capable of quelling major disturbances, it was not always on a ‘war-footing’ and was forced to rely upon rapidly raised levies in times of crisis, recruiting troops who cannot have undergone any of the training by which the legionaries had been prepared for war. To a certain extent, this information erodes the image of well-prepared professionalism which many historians have propagated.
He details the garrison of Egypt thus: 27 THE ARMY AND THE PROVINCE There are three legions of soldiers, one in the city and the others in the chora. In addition there are nine Roman cohorts, three in the city, three on the border with Ethiopia at Syene, as a guard for those places, and three elsewhere in the chora. 32 This gives a fairly clear picture of the positioning of the Roman units in the late first century BC. The garrison consisted of three legions, three alae and nine cohorts. One of these legions and three cohorts were just outside Alexandria, at Nikopolis, another legion was at Babylon and the third legion’s station remains unknown.
They could not have contained a large number of troops. More information can be gained from the scientific excavation of larger forts such as Mons Claudianus, a fort which was attached to the quarry and which was in use throughout the Roman period. Not all the forts in the Desert had such an extended life and many of the extant fortifications probably date from the late third or early fourth century. Abu Sha’r, for instance, was built on a virgin site in the early fourth century and there appears to have been no earlier military installation in the area.