COHORT V CALLAECORUM LUCENSIUM AND THE GARRISON OF THE KOSMAJ MINES
COHORT V CALLAECORUM LUCENSIUM AND THE GARRISON OF THE KOSMAJ MINES

Summary/Abstract: This paper is focused on the history of the cohort V Callaecorum Lucensium and its sojourn in Moesia Superior during the second century AD. The regiment garrisoned Pannonia (since the time of Nero) and Pannonia Superior (since the divison of the province in 106 AD). Epigraphic evidence suggests that the cohort V Callaecorum Lucensium was stationed on Kosmaj some time during the second century AD. This conclusion is based on an altar found at the site of Suvodol. The regiment’s prefect C. Gellius Exoratus dedicated it to Jupiter Capitolinus. It seems that the cohort V Callaecorum Lucensium garrisoned the mining district of Kosmaj during Trajan’s Dacian campaigns. Its transfer from Pannonia should be regarded as one of the measures aiming to protect the vital mineral resources of Moesia Superior. A similar step is attested in the southern reaches of the province. At the time of the Dacian wars, Trajan entrusted the defence of the eastern parts of the Dardanian mines to the detachment of the cohort I Hispanorum veterana quartered at Stobi in Macedonia.

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