Notitia Dignitatum

Notitia Dignitatum

Anonymous / tradition (the imperial chancery) · c. AD 395-420 (the Western section updated later than the Eastern) · Ravenna (Italy) · administrative

An illustrated register of every civil and military office in the late Roman Empire, down to the specific insignia and troop units each official commanded, survives as the single most detailed administrative snapshot of the imperial bureaucracy at its most elaborate. Ravenna is a conventional inference for the Western court, not directly attested.