Antiquities and Ancient Art: Including Property from the Estates of Andrew C. Ware and Iris C. Love

Provenance:

David John MacDonald (1943-2025; Ancient Numismatist and Illinois State University Professor of History from 1971-2005), Carlock, Illinois.

Published:

D. MacDonald, "New Fragmentary Diploma of the Syrian Army, 22 March 129," Classica Israelica, vol. XXV, 2006, pp. 97-100.

Translation:

Augusta Xoitana, and the First Flavia Agrippiana, and the First of the Ascalonitans archers, and the First Ulpia Dacorum, and the First Ulpia Archers of Roman Citizens, and the First Ulpia Petraeorum Archers of Roman Citizens, and the Second Classica, and the Second Gemina of Ligurians and Corsicans, and the Second Ulpia Equitata Archers of Roman Citizens, and the Second Italica of Roman Citizens, and the Third Thracum Syriaca, and the Fourth Callaecorum Lucensium, and the Fifth Ulpia Petraeorum Archers—who are in Syria under Publicius Marcellus—

having completed twenty-five or more years of military service and having been honorably discharged,

to those whose names are written below, he has granted Roman citizenship, and the right of lawful marriage with the wives whom they then had when citizenship was given to them, or, if any were unmarried, with those whom they later married, provided it be only one each.

Dated on the 11th day before the Kalends of April (March 22), in the consulship of Gaius Juventius Celsus (for the second time) and Quintus Iulius Balbus.

…Copied and checked from the bronze tablet which is affixed at Rome on the wall behind the temple of the deified Augustus at Minerva.