Legio II Parthica - in Mesopotamia

In Mesopotamia

At the beginning of the 4th century, II Parthica had abandoned Italy. The legion was on the Tigris frontier in the middle of the 4th century, just before a major Roman defeat by the Persians in Singara, Mesopotamia. In 360, the Sassanid King Shapur II attacked and conquered the Roman fortified city of Bezabde (modern Cizre, in Turkey), which was defended by II Partica, II Armeniaca and II Flavia Virtutis. According Notitia Dignitatum, II Parthica was in Cepha, Turkey, around 400, under the command of the Dux Mesopotamiae.