Laterculus Veronensis

The Laterculus Veronensis ( German also Veronese directory) is an image obtained in a highly corrupt manuscript of the 7th century directory of the Roman provinces of the empire after Diocletian's reforms.

Text and dating

The manuscript is in the Capitular Library in Verona. The content was indeed first published in the 18th century by Scipione Maffei, but only Theodor Mommsen realized the importance of the document and published in 1862 a corresponding essay.

Mommsen dated at the time the contents of the list to the year 297, now one is so far agreed, as the list is to be set later, on the beginning of the 4th century after 303 and before 320 Whether the list a state at a given time describes, or has different news for the western and the eastern part of the empire, has long been controversial. Meanwhile, the position has prevailed that the list was compiled 314 after the division of the empire under Constantine and Licinius.

The provinces were grouped according to the twelve dioceses of Diocletian, wherein a first group of dioceses ( Oriens - Pannoniae ) corresponded to the eastern half of the empire, and another ( Britanniae - Africa) of the western half of the empire.

After the enumeration of the provinces still follows a list of barbarian peoples into three parts, which has been studied by Karl Müllenhoff.

Content

Additions in square brackets

  • Dioecesis Orientis [ 17 provinces ]: Libya superior, inferior Libya, Thebaid, Aegyptus Iovia, Aegyptus Herculia, Arabia [ nova ], Arabia, Augusta Libanensis, Palestine, [ Syria ] Phoenice, Syria Coele, Augusta Euphratensis, Cilicia, Isauria, Cyprus, Mesopotamia, Osrhoene
  • Dioecesis pontica [7 provinces ]: Bithynia, Cappadocia, Galatia, Paphlagonia, Diospontus, Pontus Polemoniacus, Armenia minor
  • Dioecesis Asiana [9 provinces ]: [ Lycia et ] Pamphylia, Phrygia prima, secunda Phrygia, Asia, Lydia, Caria, insulae, Pisidia, Hellespont
  • Dioecesis Thraciarum [6 provinces ]: Europe, Rhodope, Thracia, Haemimontus, Scythia, Moesia Inferior
  • Dioecesis Moesiae [11 provinces ]: Dacia [ Mediterranea ], [ Dacia Ripensis ], Moesia superior / Margensis, Dardania, Macedonia, Thessalia, [ Achaea ], Praevalitana, Epirus nova, Epirus vetus, Creta
  • Dioecesis Pannoniae [7 provinces ]: Pannonia inferior, [ Pannonia ] Savensis, Dalmatia, Valeria, Pannonia Superior, Noricum Ripense, Noricum Mediterraneum
  • Dioecesis Britanniae [4 provinces ]: Britannia prima, Britannia Secunda, Maxima Caesariensis, Flavia Caesariensis
  • Dioecesis Galliae [8 provinces ]: Belgica prima, secunda Belgica, Germania prima, secunda Germania, Sequania, Lugdunensis Prima, Secunda Lugdunensis, Alpes Graiae et Poeninae
  • Dioecesis Viennensis [7 provinces ]: Viennensis, Narbonensis prima, Narbonensis secunda, November Populi, Aquitanica prima, secunda Aquitanica, Alpes Maritimae
  • Dioecesis Italiae [ 12 provinces ]: Venetia et Histria, [ Aemilia et Liguria ], Flaminia et Picenum, Tuscia et Umbria, [ Latium et Campania ], Apulia et Calabria, Lucania [ et Brutii ], [ Sicilia ], [ Sardinia ], Corsica, Cottiae Alpes, Raetia
  • Dioecesis Hispaniae [6 provinces ]: Baetica, Lusitania, Carthaginiensis, Gallaecia, Tarraconensis, Mauretania Tingitana
  • Dioecesis Africae [7 provinces ]: [ Africa] Proconsularis / Zeugitana, Byzacena, [ Tripolitania ], Numidia Cirtensis, Militiana Numidia, Mauretania Caesariensis, Mauretania [ Sitifensis ] / Tubusuctitana

Expenditure

  • Timothy David Barnes: The new empire of Diocletian and Constantine. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1982, ISBN 0-674-61126-8, pp. 201-208.
  • Theodor Mommsen: directory of the Roman provinces fitted around 297 In: Proceedings of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. Phil -hist. Class. 1862, pp. 489-518 ( digitized ).
  • Alexander Riese: geographical Latini minores. Henninger, Heilbronn 1878, pp. 127-129 ( digitized ).
  • Otto Seeck: Notitia Dignitatum: accedunt Notitia urbis et Constantinopolitanae laterculi prouinciarum. Weidmann, Berlin 1876, pp. 247-251 ( digitized ).
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