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Antiquities and Ancient Art: Including Property from the Estates of Andrew C. Ware and Iris C. Love
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- Sale 6428
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Nov 19 | 10:00 AM CST
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Sale 6428
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Estimate$1,500 – $2,500
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 Italien: Legio II Adiutrix, Flotten und Prätorianer," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, vol. 139, 2002, pp. 200-201.
Translation:
[The Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, son of the deified Trajan Parthicus, grandson of the deified Nerva, pontifex maximus, holding tribunician power ..., consul ...]
To those who served in the praetorian fleet at Misenum, [who have completed twenty-six or more years of service and have been honorably discharged,] whose names are written below, he granted to them, their children, and their descendants the Roman citizenship and the right of legal marriage (conubium) with the wives whom they had at the time citizenship was given, or, if any were unmarried, with those whom they should later marry, but only one each.
Given before the day ..., when Gaius Antonius ... and ... were consuls.
To Lucius Valerius ..., son of ..., from Taru..., and to his wife A...a, daughter of Paullus.
Copied and checked from the bronze tablet which is fixed at Rome on the wall behind the temple of the divine Augustus at Minerva.
Width of shorter fragment 5.1 cm (2 inches).
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