2 When he wrote he did not know that a second text referring to a cohors Hispanorum had been foun at Cyrene to add to the one already known (AE, 1915, 111); it will be published in our forthcoming I(nscriptions of) R(oman) C(yrenaica). Examination of the two confirms the view of K. Kraft, Zur Rekrutierung der Alen und Kohorten am Rhein und Donau (Bern, 1951), p. 178Google Scholar, no. 1510, that the date of this cohort's assignment to Cyrene cannot be much later than the middle of the first century A.D.–letter forms and formulae both point to the same conclusion; Romanelli's attractive thesis, which was also that of Wagner, W., Die Dislocation der römischen Auxiliarformationen in der Provinzen Noricum, Pannonien, Moesien und Dakien von Augustus bis Gallienus (Berlin, 1938), p. 152 f.Google Scholar, that it was during the Jewish revolt of A.D. 115, must be abandoned, If, as suggested by these writers, it is identical with the cohors II Hispanorum Scutata Cyrenaica of CIL, XVI, 110, and if this is identical with the cohors II Hispanorum stationed in Illyricum perhaps as early as A.D. 29 (see Wagner, loc. cit., and CIL, XVI, 2, n. 1) and certainly by A.D. 54, it was probably part of the Augustan garrison of Cyrenaica. It may have been replaced in the later years of Augustus, perhaps by the cohors Lusitanorum which seems to be attested there between A.D. 4 and 14 (see Romanelli, loc. cit.; this text too will appear in IRC); or withdrawn without replacement, since a reduction in the garrison is a reasonable hypothesis after the effective conquest of the Marmaridae by Sulpicius Quirinius.
