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On the date of the ‘Notitia Dignitatum.’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

F. S. Salisbury
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Two attitudes, broadly speaking, are possible to the problem of dating the Notitia Dignitatum. (1) We may suppose that the original document from which our text is derived was from first to last an official copy kept in the principal chancellery of the Western Empire at Ravenna, that the text suffered no material alteration in its subsequent history, and that, in consequence, items, such as late military formations whose period can be fixed, may safely be used to date the picture of the Empire presented by the document as a whole. Or (2) we may regard the original as a copy (perhaps an early one) which had passed into private hands and had suffered interpolation of items of later date.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , 1927 , pp. 102 - 106
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Copyright © F. S. Salisbury 1927. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

page 102 note 1 See Bury, , J.R.S. x, 131Google Scholar.

page 103 note 1 Ant. Journ. vii, 3, 271 and 275. The figures of the Icklingham find (Hill in Num. Chron. 1908, 208 ff.) are strikingly confirmed by the North Mendip silver hoard (Evans in Num. Chron., 1915, 448–453) where Arcadius has 16 coins of Trèves and 18 of Milan, while Honorius has 12 coins all of Milan. All their quinquennalia coins (9 of Arcadius and 10 of Honorius) come from Milan.

page 103 note 2 Der Untergang der Römerherrschaft in Pannonien, 1924.

page 104 note 1 Alföldi (op. cit. p. 77) discusses this section and notes the inclusion of Siscia and omission of Milan, as also of Thessalonica, closed in 379, on the transfer of Macedonia to the East.

page 104 note 2 Alice Gardner, Julian, 347–8.

page 105 note 1 Not. Occ. iii, 34, also retains Valentia. In Amm. xxviii, 3, 7 it is evidently a limitary province protected by frontier forts. In Not. Occ. i and iii it is given in addition to the four provinces of the former fourth-century diocese of Britain. It may have been carved from the province just south of Hadrian's Wall, but even so its defence (it was one of only two consular provinces in Britain) was abandoned in 383.