Romania Gothica II
The Frontier World
Romans, Barbarians and Military Culture
The Romania Gothica Conference
Organising Committee:
Isabella Baldini (Bologna), Salvatore Cosentino (Ravenna), Cristina Delaplace
(Toulouse), Joan Pinar Gil (Barcelona), Tivadar Vida (Budapest)
ROMANIA GOTHICA II
The Frontier World
Romans, Barbarians and Military Culture
Proceedings of the International Conference at the Eötvös Loránd University,
Budapest, 1–2 October 2010
TIVADAR VIDA (ed.)
with assistance from
PHILIP RANCE
(English language editor)
and
ADRIEN BLAY, ISTVÁN KONCZ, LEVENTE SAMU
Eötvös Loránd University
Institute for Archaeological Sciences
Martin Optiz Kiadó
Budapest, 2015
The conference and this volume were supported by:
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
National Cultural Fund of Hungary
Eötvös Loránd University
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Front cover
Diptych of Stilicho as magister militum in chlamys with tunica
Museo del Duomo e Biblioteca Capitolare, Monza
Back cover
Stilicho’s sword with inlaid gemstone
(István Bóna: Das Hunnenreich. Corvina – Konrad Theiss Verlag:
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CONTENTS
CONTENTS
VORWORT / FOREWORD
VIDA, TIVADAR:
”Gothia quod Romania fuisset”
9
ATHAULF UND SEINE ZEIT / ATHAULF AND HIS AGE
BRATOŽ, RAJKO
Athaulf zwischen Pannonien und Rom
15
RANCE, PHILIP
quam gentilitate appellant. The Philological Evidence for Germani in the Late Roman Army:
Germanic Loanwords in Roman Military Vocabulary
51
KISS, ATTILA P.
Per arma adoptio. Eine gotische Sitte in den frühmittelalterlichen schriftlichen Quellen
95
BARBARISCHE KRIEGER UND FÜRSTEN / BARBARIAN WARRIORS AND PRINCES
KAZANSKI, MICHEL
La tombe „princière” de l’époque hunnique à Conceşti et son contexte
historique et culturel
111
TEJRAL, JAROSLAV
Spätantike Körperbestattungen mit Schwertbeigabe
in römisch-barbarischen Grenzzonen Mitteleuropas und ihre Deutung
129
EGER, CHRISTOPH
Zur Deutung reich ausgestatteter Männergräber des mittleren 5. Jhs.
im Mittelmeerraum
237
SÖLDNER IM RÖMISCHEN UND BYZANTINISCHEN HEER / MERCENARIES IN THE ROMAN
AND BYZANTINE ARMY
MRÁV, ZSOLT
Maniakion − The Golden Torc in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Army.
Preliminary Research Report
287
QUAST, DIETER
Zwiebelknopffibeln im Barbaricum nördlich der mittleren und unteren Donau
305
TÓTH, ENDRE
Typologie der nicht gegossenen Zwiebelknopfibeln
329
MIGRATION UND IDENTITÄT / MIGRATION AND IDENTITY
BIERBRAUER, VOLKER
Vom Schwarzmeergebiet bis nach Pannonien. Ethnische Interpretationsprobleme
am Ende des 4. und in der ersten Hälfte des 5. Jahrhunderts
365
5
LÓPEZ QUIROGA, JORGE
¿‘Barbares danubiens’ en Hispania au Vème siècle?
Gentes ‘étrangers’ et armées ‘romaines’ en Péninsule Ibérique
477
BARBAREN AUF RÖMISCHEM BODEN: WEGE DER INTEGRATION / BARBARIANS ON ROMAN
TERRITORY: METHODS OF INTEGRATION
KLEEMANN, JÖRG
Hospes: Archäologische Aspekte zur Integration von Barbaren in das römische Imperium.
Eine vergleichende Betrachtung zur Beigabensitte in gallischen
und pannonischen Provinzen
499
PINAR GIL, JOAN
A Note on Female Clothing in 5th-Century Southern Gaul
517
DE
VINGO, PAOLO
5th–Century Danubian foedera and foederati and their Consequences
for the Late Antique Roman Political-Institutional Framework
HARALAMBIEVA, ANNA
East Germanic Heritage on the Western Littoral of the Black Sea.
Bow-Brooches of the Types Szekszárd-Palánk and Udine-Planis as Archaelogical
Evidence
557
577
GRENZZONEN IN DEN PROVINZEN PANNONIA UND DACIA / FRONTIER ZONES
IN THE PROVINCES OF PANNONIA AND DACIA
TOMKA, PÉTER:
Eine römische Stadt und ihre barbarische Peripherie: Scarbantia
587
HEINRICH-TAMÁSKA, ORSOLYA—STRAUB, PÉTER
Zur Datierung und Deutung der Gräber und Gräberfelder des 5. Jahrhunderts
n. Chr. in Pannonia Prima und Valeria
617
IVANIŠEVIĆ, VUJADIN
The Danubian Limes of the Diocese of Dacia in the 5th Century
679
SPÄTANTIKE TRANSFORMATIONEN / LATE ANTIQUE TRANSFORMATIONS
VIRÁGOS, RÉKA
Post-Roman Landscape in Pannonia: 5th-Century Archaeological Sites
669
MILAVEC, TINA:
The 5th-Century Changes: the Glass Perspective
679
OTTOMÁNYI, KATALIN:
Veränderungen des Töpferhandwerks in der ersten Hälfte des 5. Jhs. anhand
der Keramik der Befestigung Visegrád-Gizellamajor
691
Abkürzungen/Abbrevations
741
Authoren/Authors
745
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Teilnehmer der Konferenz / Conference Participants:
Erste Reihe von links/ First row, from left:
Paolo de Vingo (Torino), Michel Beghelli (Trento/Mainz), Zuzana Loskotová (Brno), Jaroslav Tejral
(Brno), Philip Rance (München), Tivadar Vida (Budapest), Volker Bierbrauer (München), Eduard
Droberjar (Hradec Králové), Dieter Quast (Mainz), Joan Pinar Gil (Barcelona), Péter Tomka (Győr)
Zweite Reihe von links/ Second row, from left:
Bojan Dumanov (Sofia), Jörg Kleemann (Berlin), Éva Steigberger (Wien), Christoph Eger (Damaskus/
Berlin), Vujadin Ivanišević (Beograd), Réka Virágos (Budapest), Ágnes B. Tóth (Szeged/Budapest),
Attila P. Kiss (Szeged), Orsolya Heinrich-Tamáska (Leipzig), Zsolt Mráv (Budapest), János Ódor
(Szekszárd), Eszter Mitcsenkov-Horváth (Budapest), Toni Juárez Villena (Barcelona), Rajko Bratož (Ljubljana), Michel Kazanski (Paris), Jorge López Quiroga (Madrid), Péter Prohászka (Esztergom)
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M A NI A K ION – THE GOLDEN TORC IN THE LATE
ROMAN AND EARLY BYZANTINE AR M Y
Preliminary Research Report
Zsolt Mráv
The torc or maniakion has been the subject of several studies yielding different conclusions, but it is generally accepted that it was introduced to the Roman army by the
Gauls and Persians. The Romans adopted the torc, but
progressively gave it a more specific significance as a military decoration and then as a mark of office. In the army
of the Principate the torc had been worn by allied and
then auxiliary soldiers around the neck,1 like the “guerrier de Vachères”,2 or as a military decoration, awarded
normally in pairs and – in contrast with the barbarian
fashion – attached to armour.3 In the early 3rd century, the
traditional system of dona militaria was replaced by the
cash praemium.4 The only decoration reintroduced in the
late 3rd century was the torc, known from inscriptions of
milites torquati dated to this period.5 Vegetius listed them
among the principales, as an established rank (Veget. 2,7).6
In the late Roman army this type of dona militaria was still
awarded for bravery, as clearly attested by Prudentius’
Peristephanon (1, 64), composed around A.D. 400.7 Late Ro- Fig. 1. Missorium of Theodosius (Maman standard-bearers and guardsmen also wore torcs, as
drid, Real Academia de la Historia),
demonstrated by many items of literary and iconographiguardsmen (after GrÜnhagen 1954)
cal evidence.8 According to M. P. Speidel, the aureos torques
in the late Roman period may not have been a unique privilege of standard-bearers, mainly draconarii,9
but also of the emperors’ guardsmen. These soldiers were chosen from among those who had already
received the torc as a reward for their bravery (Fig. 1).10
Although many scholars have discussed the role and function of torcs from different points of
view (for instance in connection with the iconography of warrior saints11 and guardsmen,12 as military
decoration13 or “Torqueskrönung”14), they based their conclusions on literary sources and only selec1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Beck–Chew 1991, 68–69.
Espérandieu 1907, 38 n. 35; Barruol 1996, 1–12; Adler 2003, 353–354 (with further literature).
Maxfield 1981, 86–88; Adler 2003, 131-137, 210–213.
Maxfield 1981, 248–254; Speidel 1996, 235.
Wesch-Klein 1994, 126–127; Speidel 1996, 236.
Wesch-Klein 1994, 126–127; Speidel 1996, 236.
Speidel 1985, 285; Wesch-Klein 1994, 128 Anm. 50; Speidel 1997, 295-299.
Maxfield 1981, 252-253; Speidel 1985, 284-286.
Amm. 20, 4, 18; Prudentius, Peristephanon 1.33-35 – cf. Speidel 1985, 283-287; Speidel 1996, 237; Walter 2001, 182.
Speidel 1996, 237-238.
Walter 2001; Walter 2003, 153–155; Grotowski 2009, 294–300.
Frank 1969, 139; Speidel 1996, 235-243; Von Rummel 2007, 225–227.
Maxfield 1981, 86-88; Adler 2003, 131-137, 210-213; Speidel 1996.
AlfÖldi 1935, 52–54; Ensslin 1942, 268–298; Frank 1969, 160–162; MacCormack 1990, 194–196, 241-242; Kolb 2001, 100–102;
Von Rummel 2007, 120–127.
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ted representations, while none of them has collected all the sources referring to torcs in late Roman
military contexts.15 In the first part of my contribution I intend to focus on some newly identified torcrepresentations that have not previously been discussed in this context and on the problem of actual
torc finds connected to the late Roman army. In the second part I attempt to classify torc-iconography
briefly and to make a preliminary typochronology based on their representations.
THE DECENNALIA BASE, ROMAN FORU M
A relief in the forum Romanum depicts the rite
of the suovetaurilia, the latest representation in
Roman state art. The monument is one of the
column bases that celebrated Diocletian’s vota
vicennalia and Maximianus’ triumph in A.D.
303.16 The right-hand popa, with an axe over his
shoulder, wears a collar with a disc-shaped pendant adorned with a bust (Fig. 2). H. P. L’Orange
and S. Ryberg identified this as a bulla, in spite
of their statement that this amulet “is an unusual detail that has no evident connection with
the sacrifice”.17 Moreover, the pendant cannot be
a bulla, because its wearer is neither a child, nor
a women.18 The collar is circular, so the pendant
hangs not from a leather strap or necklace, but is
attached directly to a metal hoop.
The joint sacrifice of a bull, a sheep and a pig,
offered only to Mars, was part of a traditional religious rite in the Roman army, the lustratio exercitus, which was carried out in connection with
the lustration of camps or on the occasion of a
triumph.19 In late Roman times the ceremonies
of periodic vota were regularly made to coincide with the celebration of a triumph and ended
with a lustral rite.20 That is why the scene was represented on a column base conmemorating the
vota decennalia of the Caesars. The victimarii, who
executed the military rite of the suovetaurilia, were
regular soldiers.21 Some inscriptions prove that
they served in legions, like C. Iulius Firminus in
the XXX Ulpia Victrix,22 or in the fleet, like L. Va-
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
Fig. 2.
The suovetaurilia scene of the Decennalia base
in the Roman forum (after L’Orange 1938)
Werde 1972, 85–87; Speidel 1996, 236-237; Martin 1999, 115–117; Walter 2001, 181–186; Adler 2003, 72.
L’Orange 1938, 1–34; Ryberg 1955, 117.
Ryberg 1955, 117.
For the wearing of bullae in the Roman period, see: Goette 1986, 133–164; in the Pannonian provinces: Migotti 2007, 187–219.
Domaszewski 1893, 19–21.
Ryberg 1955, 119.
Domaszewski–Dobson 1967, 14, 16, 19, 24, 27, 52; Haensch 2006, 209.
CIL XIII 8292 (from the river Rhine near Cologne): C. Iulio Firmino | victimario | mil(iti) leg(ionis) XXX U(lpiae) V(ictricis) |
Agrip(inensi) stip(endiorum) XXVIII | et | M. Aurelio Antiocho mil(iti) | leg(ionis) XXX U(lpiae) V(ictricis) h(eres) f(aciendum)
c(uravit) – see also: CIL VIII 18085 e 4 (legio III Augusta).
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lerius Victor.23 Besides the laterculi of the urban cohorts24 and the
vigiles,25 victimarii are also listed in the laterculi of the imperial
bodyguards, among the guardsmen of the praetorian cohorts26
and the equites singulares Augusti.27 Most probably these soldiers,
as constant members of the imperial escort, carried out the sacrifices in the presence of emperors. After the army reforms of
Diocletian, the rank of victimarius – or the scope of their duties
– must have been preserved in the army of the Tetrarchy or at
least in the bodyguard units of the religiosissimi Augusti, as Diocletian and Maximianus called themselves on a pagan sacral
inscription.28 According to the inscription of L. Valerius Victor,
who was a victimarius principalis, the victimarius as a specialist
belonged to the ranks of under-officers, the milites principales,29
like the decorated rank of torquatus mentioned by Vegetius.30
The preceding discussion makes it clear that the torc-wearer in
the latest suovetaurilia relief may have been an under-officer of
the Tetrarchic army, a victimarius and at the same time a miles
torquatus, who earned his neckband in the emperor’s service,
most probably during his former career. He was obviously
proud of having won a neckband, which was not a bulla, but an
awarded torc with a rounded pendant, a form also known from
later depictions. The human bust clearly recognizable at its centre can be identified with great certainty not as a specific deity,
but as one of the current emperors, Diocletian or Maximianus. Fig. 3. Guardsmen of Justinian on
The image of the emperor in military dress is also engraved on
the Donation mosaic of San
Vitale, Ravenna
the torc-gemstone of a guardsman in the Donation mosaic in
San Vitale, Ravenna, depicting Justinian and his escort (Fig. 3).31
M. P. Speidel has previously supposed Constantine’s Arch to have been the first known monument on
which such neckbands are depicted,32 but according to my argumentation this was rather the Tetrarchic column base in the Roman forum.
Another relief, which came to light in Merida, Spain, must belong to a triumphal monument, commemorating Maximianus’ victory over the Franks and Moors in A.D. 296/297 (Fig. 4).33 The reliefed slab,
dated around A.D. 300, depicts the emperor as a triumphal horseman, alongside a tropaeum with chain
armour and, above it, a simple torc. On late imperial state reliefs the tropaea are often equipped with
not only barbarian but also Roman militaria, as, for instance, on the contemporary votive column base
in Rome. It cannot be excluded that the torc of the Merida relief is also a Roman, rather than a Frankish
or Moorish neckband.
Some literary sources, mainly passiones, give further direct information about the significance of
neckbands in the army of the Tetrarchs. Besides the well-known Passio of Saints Sergius and Bacchus,34
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
CIL X 3501 = ILS 2875 (Misenum).
CIL VI 32522 d 2. 8 (A.D. 209).
CIL VI 1056, cf. p. 4320 (3) 11 (A.D. 205); CIL VI 1057, cf. p. 4320 (3) 4 (A.D. 205); CIL VI 1058, cf. p. 4320 (3) 14
(A.D. 210).
CIL VI 32533, cf. p. 3834, 4351 (= ILS 431) b 24 (A.D. 209).
CIL VI 31149 = ILS 4833 (A.D. 141).
CIL III 4413 (Carnuntum); Vorbeck 1980, 293.
Domaszewski–Dobson 1967, 14, 16, 19, 24, 27, 52; Haensch 2006, 209.
Wesch-Klein 1994, 127; Speidel 1996, 236.
Hauck 1959, 28–40.
Speidel 1996, 237–238.
Arce 1982, 359-371; Arce 2008, 47–70.
van den Gheyn 1895.
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Fig. 5.
Alsóheténypuszta (County of Tolna, Hungary), late Roman inner fortress. Lead seal
of Constantius II, which was probably used
as a signaculum on the collar of a late Roman soldier (Hungarian National Museum,
photo: Zs. Mráv)
the Acts of Maximilianus deserve special attention.35 During his enlistment, upon the order “milita et accipe signaculum” from the governor Dion,
Maximilianus refused the signaculum, because
“iam habeo signum Christi Dei mei” and “ego Christianus sum, non licet plumbum collo portare”. These
words clearly show that, during the rite of the
sacramentum militiae, recruits were marked with
a lead object worn around the neck, which – like
Fig. 4.
Merida. Relief commemorating Maximianus’
the canditati-type torcs – probably featured the
victory over the Franks and Moors in 296/297
(after Arce 1982)
name and image of the emperor.36 This may have
been the religious grounds for Maximilianus’ refusal to accept it. For practical reasons and owing
to its lead material, these objects could not be proper torcs, but special collars closed by a lead signaculum. Consequently, they must have been produced in large numbers and ought thus to be represented
among the archaeological finds of the period. These characteristics can be observed only on a special
series of late antique lead seals decorated with Christograms or with the emperor’s portraits and name
in the exergue (Fig. 5).
35
36
Ruinart 1859, 340–342 – cf. Gáspár 1982, 66–68.
DÖlger 1930, 268–270 – cf. Ambr. De obit. Valent. 58 (PL. 16.1437. C.).
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THE GOLDEN MEDALS OF CONSTANTIUS II
Further iconographical evidence is provided by the reverse side of the Berlin golden medal issued by
Constantius II, where the emperor is represented in his triumphal chariot flanked by two Victories (Fig.
6).37 In the lower segment, among the largitio gifts, such as precious metal leaves, crowns and a moneybag in the centre, six obscure hoop-shaped golden objects can be seen, placed one over the other (Fig.
6b). An analogous depiction can be seen in the near-contemporary golden medal, now in the collection
of the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg (Fig. 7).38 The hoops, in this case appearing on the left side of the central money-bag, are very worn. The segment of the golden medal of Valens from the first Szilágysomlyó hoard (Fig. 8)39 and a silver medal of Honorius (Fig. 9)40 have a near-identical composition to that
of the Berlin medal, but the wreaths and hoops are barely discernible, as a later replication simplified
Fig. 6.
The Berlin golden medal
issued by Constantius
II (after Gnecchi 1912)
photo: Zs. Mráv)
Fig. 9.
37
38
39
40
Fig. 7.
The golden medal of
Constantius II in the collection of the Hermitage,
Saint Petersburg (after
Bank 1986)
The silver medal of Honorius (after Gnecchi 1912)
Fig. 10.
Fig. 8.
The golden medal of
Valens from the first
Szilágysomlyó hoard (after Seipel [Hrsg.] 1999)
The silver dish from Kerch
depicting the triumph of
Constantius II (after Bank
1986)
Gnecchi 1912, 29 Constanzo II/4, Tav. 11.1 = Cohen 8/29. “al l’esergo armi e simboli fra le lettere A e N”. It was kept in
“Gabinetto di Francia”, Berlin. Diameter.: 4,7 cm, weight: 40.300 g.– cf. DelbrÜck 1929, 69 Abb. 25.
Gnecchi 1912, 29 Constanzo II/2, Tav. 10.8 (diameter: 4,9 cm; weight: 41.900 g) – cf. Blank 1986, p. 272 fig. 9.
Gnecchi 1912, 36.Valente/1, Tav. 15.1.= Cohen 1/1 – cf. Harhoiu 1993, 225 Nr. 8; Seipel 1999, 180–182, Kat. Nr.7.
For a silver medal of Honorius, see: Gnecchi 1912, 82 Onorio/1, Tav. 36.15 (Vienna) = Cohen 4/17.
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them into flat rings. Nevertheless, let us return to the best-preserved Berlin medal in order to define
these hitherto unexamined hoops: the flat regular rings have almost the same diameter as the wreaths,
and in the middle of the frontal, lower curve, they are decorated with a round- or oval-shaped, bulged
attachment. The two curves of the hoop ended in the middle of its open back with small spherical
bulges. These characteristics correspond to the well-defined group of so-called candidati-type torcs,
which are shaped as a complete circle and have a precious stone as decoration at the front, as depicted
around the neck of the guardsman on the Kerch largitio bowl, dated to the reign of Constantius II (Fig.
10).41 According to the theory proposed here, these hoops can be identified as golden torcs. The medals in question also testify beyond doubt that golden torcs were awarded by the emperor himself to
soldiers of distinguished bravery and to new guardsmen, mainly on ceremonial occasions, such as
triumphs or regnal anniversary feasts. Probably this ceremony or a later variation of it is mentioned in
De Ceremoniis I,10, where a protospatharius knelt and kissed the emperor’s feet, while a torc, ornamented
with gems, was placed around his neck.42
THE L A RGI T IO PLATE OF VALENTINIAN I OR II FROM GENEVA
The relief scene on the silver largitio plate of Valentinian I or II from Geneva, Switzerland, shows the emperor in military costume, flanked on either side by three soldiers from his escort (Fig. 11).43 Although all
the bodyguards in the scene are represented wearing torcs, as pointed out by Ph. von Rummel,44 it is the
lower section of the plate that provides the next piece of evidence. With the exception of three scholars,
every discussion of this largitio plate has described only three military objects under the postament of
the emperor: an oval shield, a long spatha with cross-piece and a helmet (Table 1).
Fig. 11.
41
42
43
44
The largitio plate of Valentinian I or II from
Geneva (after Baratte 1989)
Fig. 12.
The lower segment of the Geneva largitio plate
depicting military symbols (a. after DelbrÜck
1933; b. after Baratte 1989) and the drawing
of the enigmatic fourth object
DelbrÜck 1933, 147–151, Abb. 45–47, Taf. 57; Blank 1986, p. 271 fig. 1 (with further literature).
Walter 2001, 183.
Deonna 1920, 18–32, 92–104; Deonna 1921, 242-304; DelbrÜck 1933, 179; GrÜnhagen 1954, 18;
Von Rummel 2007, 348-349.
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The recognized objects in the
lower segment by different scholars
The fourth item
W. Deonna
(Deonna 1920, 31.)
“Au bas de l’estrade on aperçoit les armes des vaincus, casque, bouclier, épée au foureeeau muni de son
ceinturon que termine un gland.”
belt
R. Delbrück
(DelbrÜck 1933, 181.)
“Im Segment, d. h. vor dem Suggestus, liegen Waffen; von links nach rechts folgen sich: ein Bogen,
schwach aber deutlich; ein jetzt glatter ovaler Schild
ohne Kennzeichen; ein langes, gerades Schwert
mit schlichtem Griff, Gürtel und einem von dessen
Schnalle (?) herabhängenden dünnen Riemen, der
unten ein spitzkugeliges Gewicht zum Anfassen
trägt; ein römischer Helm Wangenklappen...”
belt
M. Schulze
(Schulze 1980, 60. Nr. 48.)
“Zu Füßen des Kaisers liegen seine Waffen: Schild,
Speer und Helm”
–
S. MacCormack
(MacCormack 1981, 205.)
“Beneath the podium are to be seen a shield, a baton
and a helmet, tokens of the conquered enemy”.
–
F. Baratte
(Baratte 1989, 271-272. No. 236.)
“A l’exergue, un bouclier, une grande épée et un
casque.”
–
C. Compostella
(Compostella 1990, 44.)
“Nell’esergo giacciono delle armi: un arco, uno scudo
ovale privo di decorazioni, una spada, una cintura e
un elmo con copriguance.”
belt
A. Arbeiter
(Arbeiter 1997, 158.)
“Kriegsgerät, nämlich ein Schild, ein Schwert und
ein Helm, liegt auch in dem Segment zu Füßen der
Gruppe.”
-
Ph. von Rummel
(Rummel 2007, 349.)
“ ... zu Füßen des Kaisers seine Waffen, Helm, Schild
und Schwert.”
-
Table 1. Largitio plate of Valentinian I or II from Geneva. The military objects under the postament
of the emperor as decribed by different scholars
Some scholars, for instance M. Schulze45 and Ph. von Rummel,46 explained these militaria as the
emperor’s own weaponry. This opinion can surely be excluded, as the emperor already had another
and different type of sword in this period. Moreover, the helmet depicted is classified as an Intercisa
type infantry helmet, worn in this scene by the guardsmen, which differs from the lavishly decorated,
partially open battle helmet of late Roman emperors. S. MacCormack has supposed that the militaria
were “tokens of the conquered enemy”,47 but nevertheless the helmet surely represents a late Roman
type.48 In any case, in the lower segment of the plate, probably as a result of a former restoration or
cleaning, only these three items are now visible (Fig. 12a). Surprisingly, in some old black-and-white
photographs taken before its drastic cleaning, an additional enigmatic fourth object (Fig. 12b-c) can
be clearly seen. Due to the current very worn and overpolished surface of the plate, almost nobody
recognised this object. Only W. Deonna and R. Delbrück,49 followed by C. Compostella, described and
attempted to interpret it, in all cases as a military belt.50 If we read the very detailed description by
Delbrück, it becomes understandable why the object could not be defined as a belt, and besides there
are no analogous pieces among 4th-century military belt-types. It is therefore more probable that the
object in question is a torc. This view is supported by its size and diameter compared to the helmet,
45
46
47
48
49
50
Schulze 1980, 60 Nr. 48.
Von Rummel 2007, 349.
MacCormack 1981, 205.
Miks 2008, 455–456 Abb. 6.
DelbrÜck 1933, 181.
Compostella 1990, 44.
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Fig. 13.
Venus from the so-called
Projecta casket of the Esquiline Treasure (after
Kent – Painter 1977)
Fig. 14.
51
52
53
54
which would be too small for a belt, but this identification is also
confirmed by its form. A circular pendant attached to a neckband
by a long chain or strap (?) is not without parallels in late Roman
contexts. As a female jewel, for instance, it appears on a Néreid
from the so-called Projecta casket of the Esquiline Treasure.51 (Fig.
13) More importantly, this type of torc can be clearly recognised
in the Notitia Dignitatum, among the insignia of the magister officiorum.52 The military objects depicted in the lower section include
a white dalmatica with a similar type of torc around its neck (Fig.
14). It is also possible that the late Roman soldier represented in
the expositio thoracomachi wears such a neckband (Fig. 15).53 If my
argumentation is correct, this would mean that, in the lower scene
of the largitio plate, in addition to the depicted helmet, sword and
shield, the torc becomes a fourth symbol of the status of a soldier or
guardsman. In the Passio of Saints Sergius and Bacchus, the martyrs, as primicerii of Maximinus Daia’s schola gentilium, refused to
worship the gods, so they were stripped of their military insignia
and their maniakia were removed.54 Consequently they were often,
though not always, represented wearing torcs. Since we lack any
analogies, we should leave open the question whether the torc and
the pendant suspended from it were the above-mentioned lead
Notitia Dignitatum, insignia of the magister officiorum (Ms. Landi 9 after Milano)
Kent–Painter 1977, 44 n. 88.
NotDign. insignia viri ill. mag. officiorum (Ms. Landi 9, f.13r, f.67r. Piacenza, Bibliotheca Comunale Passerini Landi.) – cf.
Milano 39–40 n. 1c.1c.
For the representation of the expositio thoracomachi in an early medieval edition of Anonymous, De rebus bellicis ( Bibliothèque
Nationale, Paris), see MacDowa–Embleton 1994, 45. – cf. Ubl 2006, 270-272; Sumner 2009, 171–174.
van den Gheyn 1895, 371-395 – cf. Walter 2001, 183-184; Walter 2003, 153–155.
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signaculum received by Roman soldiers during the
rite of the sacramentum militiae or rather a new type
of golden torcs given as awards.
Finally, some hitherto unrecognized examples
should be briefly noted. In the Cambridge drawings of the base of the destroyed Column of Arcadius in Constantinople, specifically on its southern face, to the right of the emperors’ escort, stand
two soldiers depicted wearing torcs with a single
gemstone (Fig. 16.a-b).55 The artist who drew this
must have clearly seen this object around the neck
of the soldiers, who were most probably serving Fig. 15. The expositio thoracomachi in an early mediin the imperial bodyguard. On an inscribed fueval edition of Anonymous, De rebus bellicis
(Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris – after Macnerary slab from Aquileia, three engraved figures
Dowal – Embleton 1994)
demonstrate the life cycle of the soldier (Fig. 17).
The first figure represents him as a soldier in full
armament, wearing a torc with toothed leaf-shaped pendant: this is not surprising, since the inscription tells us that he was an ex-protector, a discharged guardsman.56
The torc-types that appear in different representations correspond to the torcs described in the literary
sources. The surface of the hoop is either twisted, as on Constantine’s Arch57 and the torc described
by Pseudo-Codinus (De Officiis 184), or more often flat. The so-called candidati-type torcs were made of
gold and adorned with jewels at the front.58 This type can be classified into two main groups. To the
first subtype belonged the torcs with inlaid and/or attached gemstones decorated often with the image
Fig. 16
55
56
57
58
a. 16th-century drawing of the destroyed Column of Arcadius in Constantinople; b. soldiers wearing torcs (after Freshfield 1921-1922)
Freshfield 1921-1922, Taf. 17; Kollwitz 1941, Beilag. 5.
AE 1982, 383 = AE 1991, 772 = InscrAq 2913 –cf. Speidel 1990, 68-72; Vergone 2007, 291-295 n. 139 (with further literature).
Speidel 1996, 237–239 Fig. 1.
Zonaras 13, 10 – cf. Speidel 1996, 238–239.
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Fig. 17.
An inscribed funerary slab from Aquileia
depicting an ex-protector with torc looped
around his neck (after Vergone 2007
of the current emperor (Typ I) (Fig. 18). A golden
4th-century neckband, with five inlaid precious
stones of glass paste in the Centraal Museum,
Utrecht (Fig. 19), may belong to this group.59 Based Fig. 18. Torcs with inlaid and/or attached gemstone
(Typ I) (drawing Zs. Mráv)
on its inscription, it was probably made in an imperial workshop.60 The earliest-represented examples show a single circular, oval or rhombic precious stone or glass paste at the middle of the frontal
side (Typ. I.2a-d).61 This basic form of torc was partly taken up from Roman private, mostly female jewellery62 or less probably as an eastern influence from the iconography of Palmyrene deities. These torcwearing deities were often represented as Roman soldiers or officers in military costume after the 1st
century A.D.63 Later, in the early Byzantine period, torcs ornamented with three or five jewels appear
in the literary sources and in representations (Typ I.3a-b).64 The latest type had a larger central stone
(or a golden medal?) and four additional but smaller stones (or coins in clustered construction?65) attached to it in a transversal position (Typ. I.4a-b),66 like the golden coins on the two gold bracelets of the
Dumbarton Oaks Collection (Fig. 20).67 These large bracelets could have been wristbands (bracchialia),
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
Roes 1947, 183–187 fig. 4–5; Speidel 1996, 239 n. 23.
Speidel 1996, 239 n. 23.
For the Type I.1 see, for instance, the torc of the guardsmen on the silver dish from Kerch representing the triumph of
Constantius II: Kent–Painter 1977, 25 n. 11; Blank 1986, 271 fig. 1. Torcs of Typ I.2a (with single, oval-shaped jewel): San
Vitale in Ravenna, Donation mosaic: Hauck 1959, 28–40. Typ. I.2b (with rhombic jewel): votive mosaic portrait of Saint
Sergius wearing a torc in Saint Demetrius, Thessaloniki: Cormack 1989, II n. 40. Typ I.2.c: Theodosius missorium, Madrid:
Meischner 1996, 389–432.
See note 78.
See, for instance, the three Palmyrene deities (Malakbel, Aglibol with the god Baalshamin) in the Bir Wereb relief (Louvre,
Paris): Drijvers 1976, Pl. XXXIV.
Typ I.3a: icon representing Saint Sergius and Bacchus from Saint Catherine’s Monastery, Sinaï (now in Kiev): Blank 1986,
291 fig. 112–113. Typ I.3b: The Homiles of Gregory of Nazianzus, Paris graec. 510, f. 374v (Julian is represented sacrificing to
the pagan gods, while behind him can be seen some soldiers of his bodyguard unit) – cf. Walter 2001, 183.
Bruhn 1993, 30.
Saint Sergius silver bowl, Cyprus: Kent–Painter 1977, Cat. n. 175, p. 69; Vienna Genesis, f. 18v. (miniature of Joseph
interpreting Pharaoh’s dreams): Gerstinger no date, Pl. 36; Walter 2001, 182.
Ross 1965, 44-46 n. 46 Pl. XXXVII - cf. Bruhn 1993, 30. For the pair of gold bracelets set with coin imitations from Assiûd,
Egypt, see: Greifenhagen 1970, 71 Taf. 52.5–6.
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Fig. 19.
The 4th-century golden neckband with five
inlaid precious stones of glass paste in the
Centraal Museum, Utrecht (after Roes 1947)
Fig. 20.
Fig. 22.
Gold bracelet from the Dumbarton Oaks Collection (after Hendy – Bellinger 1999)
The late Roman golden torc in the British Museum (after
MacDowal – Embleton 1994)
which became late Roman and early Byzantine battle awards
and were also worn by under-officers, who were ranked as
Fig. 21. Torc with pendants (Typ II)
68
bracchiati.
(drawing Zs. Mráv)
The second group comprises neckbands with different
shapes of pendants suspended from them (Fig. 21). A golden torc from the British Museum must have
belonged to this group (Fig. 22).69 It was quite certainly a late Roman military decoration, since it follows the tradition of the earlier dona militaria insofar as the two ends of the band end in a lion’s head.70
The hoops, clearly visible at the front, served for fastening a hinged, now lost pendant, which were
never attached to the torcs awarded in the first two centuries. Circular, oval and drop-shaped pendants are common forms (Typ II.1a-b).71 The circular pendants, or at least some of them, could have
been gold coins or medals with (openwork?) settings.72 In addition to the above-mentioned tombstone
68
69
70
71
72
Speidel 1996, 241–242.
MacDowal–Embleton 1994, 17.
Garbsch 1986, 336; Grabert–Koch 1986, 325-336; Springer 1993, 265-271 – cf. Adler 2003, 210–213.
Typ II.1a (torcs with oval/circular-shaped pendants): Welschbillig, Germanic guardsmen: Wrede 1972, 85-87, Taf. 34.1, 35.1,
36.1, 37.2, 38, 39.1-2, 41.1; Typ II.1b (torcs with drop-shaped pendants): Diptychon (München, Staatsbibliothek): DelbrÜck
1929, 180–185 Nr. 45.
Bruhn 1993, 30; Martin 1999, 115–117.
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Fig. 23.
The Theodosian obelisk base in Constantinople, Roman guardsmen with
torcs (after Bruns 1935)
Fig. 24.
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
from Aquileia,73 the leaf-shaped torcs are known from
other Theodosian monuments: from the obelisk base
in Constantinople (Fig. 23)74 and on some hermae representing African guardsmen from Welschbillig (Fig. 24)75
(Typ II.2a-b). It is commonly argued that these leaves may
have been ivy leaves, but in my opinion they are peony
leaves, which had imperial purple-coloured flowers and
were in Greek called theodonion.76 This word has a similar
meaning to the name of Theodosios, and consequently
the soldiers in the bodyguard of Theodosios were indirectly marked with the name of the emperor - but, of
course, this theory is hardly provable. More probably the
leaf-shaped pendants of the torcs imitated a popular late
Roman pendant-type, which is exemplified by a silver
neckband with large leaf-shaped pendant decorated with
a Christogram, found in a child’s sarcophagus in Carnuntum (Fig. 25).77
The different types of torcs could also have been
worn as personal jewels in the Roman Empire by women,
children and slaves,78 as well as youths.79 The form of
Hermae representing African guardsmen from Welschbillig (after Wrede
1972)
Vergone 2007, 291–295 n. 139.
Bruns 1935, 45 Abb. 44, 46–48, 62, 64–67, 77, 83.
Wrede 1972, Taf. 38.1–2.
Dictionnaire classique d’histoire naturelle. Tom. 16. Paris 1830, 223.
Kandler 2004, 61–62 Abb. 45. A grave of a child from the Ságvár 4th-century cemetery (n. 219) yielded a similar torc with
leaf-shaped pendant: Burger 1966, 122, 218.
Wrede 1972, Taf. 53.4; Bruhn 1993; Walker–Bierbrier 1997, n. 90; Yeroulanou 1999, 31–42.
Walter 2001, 181.
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these collars, often adorned with pendants, strongly resembles the torcs that were used in the late Roman army
(Fig. 26). We can therefore conclude that the origin of the
shape and form of the known military torcs was not Germanic, but purely Roman. The Roman emperors, beyond
doubt, awarded to their brave soldiers and guardsmen
only the previously described Roman types of torcs
made in imperial workshops, and not Germanic types,
as is clearly shown by the Berlin medal of Constantius
II (Fig. 6). Consequently, the torcs of non-Roman decoration or technique – for instance, the neckbands from the
princely burials at Gommern,80 Hassleben, Ostrovany/
Osztrópataka,81 Cejkov/Czéke,82 and Wrocуaw/Zakrów I
and III83 – can hardly be explained as imperial gifts or
Roman military decorations. This view is also supported
by the conclusion of von Rummel’s monograph, Habitus
Barbarus,84that the long-haired late Roman guardsmen
with torcs looped around their necks are likely to be representations of Roman elite soldiers rather than hostile
or allied barbarian warriors.85
Fig. 25.
Silver neckband with a large leaf-pendant decorated
with a Christogram from a child’s sarcophagus in
Carnuntum (after Kandler 2004)
Fig. 26
80
81
82
83
84
85
a. Child wearing a torc with pendant, finial of a tripod leg from
Trier (after Wrede 1972); b. Torc with pendant, mummy portrait
from Fayum (after Bruhn 1993); c. Funerary portrait from Fayum
(Paris, Musée du Louvre, AF 6487 – after Yeroulanou 1999)
Becker 2001, 129–130.
Prohászka 2006, 43–46, 66–68.
Beninger 1931, Taf. 8.
Grempler 1887, Taf. V.21; id.: 1888, Taf. VII.14.
Rummel 2007, 230–231.
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