REIGN OF TRAJAN, 109 A.D.

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A ROMAN BRONZE MILITARY DIPLOMA
REIGN OF TRAJAN, 109 A.D.
Issued by the Emperor Trajan, during the consulship of Gaius Iulius Proculus and Gaius Aburnius Valens, pro-consul of D. Terentius Scaurianus in Dacia, dated 14 October 109 A.D., granting Roman citizenship and marriage rights to an infantryman of the cohort I Montanorum under the command of Cornelius Felicior, whose name is M. Herennius Polymita Berensis, son of Marcus, and to his sons Ianuarius and Marcellus and his daughter Lucana. Copied and checked from the bronze tablet fixed to the wall at Rome behind the temple of the deified Augustus at the shrine of Minerva. The outside face of the reverse tablet lists the names of seven witnesses. The whole comprising two rectangular tablets each pierced twice for binding (now missing) and twice in corners, restoration to edges
6¼ x 5 5/8 in. (16 x 13.5 cm.) (2)

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PUBLISHED:
(2nd plate) M. Mirkovic, Neues Militärdiplom aus der Umgebung von Viminacium, Zeitschrift Papyrologie und Epigraphie, 70, 1987, pp. 189-194, pl. 11.
(1st and 2nd plate) J. Garbsch, Das äteste Militärdiplom für die Provinz Dakien, Bayerische Vorgeschichtsblätter, 54, 1989, pp. 137-151, pls. 10-11.

This is the oldest surviving military diploma for the province of Dacia.

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