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:

W. Eck, D. MacDonald, and A. Pangerl, "Neue Militärdiplome für Truppen in Britannia, Pannonia Superior, Pannonia Inferior sowie in Thracia," Revve des Études militaires anciennes, Iss. I, 2004, pp. 64-68.

Translation:

Imperator Caesar, son of the divine Trajan Parthicus, grandson of the divine Nerva, Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, pontifex maximus, holding tribunician power for the sixth time, consul for the third time, proconsul — to the cavalrymen and infantrymen who have served in ten alae and thirty-seven cohorts, which are called: Ala I Pannoniorum Sabiniana, Ala I Pannoniorum Tampiana, Ala Hispanorum Asturum, Ala Tungrorum, Ala II Asturum, Ala Gallorum Picentiana, Ala Gallorum et Thracum Classiana civium Romanorum, Ala Gallorum Petriana milliaria civium Romanorum, Ala Gallorum Sebosiana, Ala Vettonum Hispanorum civium Romanorum, Ala Agrippiana Miniata, Ala Augusta Gallorum, Ala Augusta Vocontiorum civium Romanorum, Ala Celtiberorum, Ala I Thracum, Ala I Afrorum civium Romanorum, Ala Lingonum, Ala I Fida Vardullorum milliaria civium Romanorum, Ala I Frisiavonum, Ala I Vangionum milliaria, Ala I Hamiorum sagittaria, Cohors I Delmatarum, Cohors I Aquitanorum, Cohors I Ulpia Traiana Cugernorum civium Romanorum, Cohors I Morinorum, Cohors I Menapiorum, Cohors I Sunicorum, Cohors I Betasiorum, Cohors I Batavorum, Cohors I Tungrorum, Cohors I Hispanorum, Cohors II Gallorum, Cohors II Vasconum civium Romanorum, Cohors II Thracum, Cohors I Lingonum, Cohors II Asturum, Cohors II Delmatarum, Cohors II Nerviorum, Cohors III Nerviorum, Cohors III Bracarorum, Cohors III Lingonum, Cohors IIII Gallorum, Cohors IV Nerviorum, Cohors VII Thracum. which are in Britain, under Aulus Platorius Nepos, with twenty-five years of service completed and honorably discharged through Pompeius Falcon, whose names are written below. To them, their children, and their descendants he granted Roman citizenship and the right of lawful marriage with the wives they then had when citizenship was granted to them, or, if they were unmarried, with those they later married, provided it was one each. On the sixteenth day before the Kalends of August (July 17), in the consulship of Tiberius Julius Capito and Lucius Vitrasius Flamininus (A.D. 122).

To a man of the ala Gallorum Picentiana, commanded by Tiberius Claudius Priscianus … son of Busidius …

…Tiberius Claudius Menander, Aulus Fulvius Iustus, Tiberius Julius Urbanus, Lucius Pullius Daphnus, Lucius Nonius Victor, Quintus Lollius Festus, Lucius Pullius Anthus.