By Nick Sekunda
The literary and archaeological proof for the Romanization of the Ptolemaic military in the course of the reign of Ptolemy VI Philometor of Egypt (180-145 BC).
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Of the League, to which Eunostides belonged, remained loyal to Rome. Eunostides' groom holds his weapons, a pair of spears and a square shield in lhe shapeofa conventional thureos shield with the top and bottom cut off. These are lhe weapons of a 'Tarentine' cavalryman. )' of the Thessalian League was commanded by a hipparch and a tarantinarch (Luigi Moretti, Iscrizioni Storiche EI/enistiche lJ (1975) 130~ IQ ix (2) 509). This stele indicates that the cavalry of the Perrhaibian League included a regiment of 'Tarentines' too.
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