Legio IV Scythica

Fourth Legion Scythica
Legio IV Scythica
Legio IIII Scythica
Legio Quarta Scythica
Map of the Roman Empire under the reign of Hadrian (125 AD), showing the Fourth Legion Scythica, stationed on the river Euphrates at Zeugma (near modern Gaziantep, Turkey), in the Roman province of Syria, from 68 AD until possibly the 4th century.
Activec. 42 BC until 219 AD (confirmed)
CountryRoman Republic (closing years) and Roman Empire
TypeRoman legion
Coin issued by Philip the Arab for his wife Marcia Otacilia Severa. On the reverse in the exergue, a capricorn, in reference to IIII Scythica, beneath a tetrastyle temple; mint of Zeugma, Roman Syria, a legionary camp. BMC 34.

Legio IV Scythica ("Scythian Fourth Legion"), also written as Legio IIII Scythica,[1] was a legion of the Imperial Roman army founded in c. 42 BC by the Roman general Mark Antony, for his campaign against the Parthian Empire, hence its other cognomen, Parthica. The legion was still active in the Roman province of Syria in the early 5th century.

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