Cohors IV Baetica

Cohors IV Baetica

Roman infantry helmet (late 1st c.)
Active Not later than 14 BC
Country Roman Empire
Type Roman auxiliary cohort
Role infantry/cavalry
Garrison/HQ Castra of Olteni ?
Engagements prob. Dacian Wars (99-106)

It was originally recruited from natives of Hispania Baetica, Roman province created on 29 BC, after the division of province Hispania Ulterior. In a bronze inscription dated 51-74 AD, which found in Bergamo on 1871, it is mentioned a member of the cohors "M(arcus) Sempronius Fuscus praefectus cohortis Baeticae". [1]

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