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LOT 0811
Roman Bronze Military Diploma Fragment Issued Under Antoninus Pius to Auxiliaries Stationed in Moesia Superior
22 APRIL 157 A.D.
1 5/8 in. (7.33 grams, 42 mm).
The edge of a diploma with eight partial lines of text to one side, and six partial lines to the other side; the restored text to the point of textual overlap between obverse and reverse; full stop is used for subscript dot: remains of letter with uncertain reading:
Tabella I extrinsecus (obverse):
[imp(erator) caes(ar) divi hadriani f(ilius) divi traiani]
[part(hici) nepos divi ne]RVA.[e pron(epos) t(itus) aelius]
[hadrianus anto]NINVS AVG(ustus) PIVS
[pont(ifex) max(imus) trib(unicia) pot(estate) xx i]MP(erator) II CO(n)S(ul) IIII P(ater)
P(atriae)
[equitib(us) et peditib(us) q]VI MILIT(averunt) IN ALIS
[ii quae appell(antur) i claudia] N.OVA MISCELL(anea)
[et i gallor(um) flaviana et c]OHORT(ibus) X
[v gallor(um) et pannonior(um) et v hisp]ANOR(um)
[et i montanor(um) et i antioch(ensium) sagit]T.AR(iorum)1
[et i cretum sagittar(ia) et III campestr(is) c(ivium)] R(omanorum) et ii gallor(um) macedon(ica) et iii britton(um)
vet(eranorum) et i aug(usta) lusitanor(um) et i pannonior(um) vet(eranorum) et sunt in moesia sup(eriore)]
etc
Tabella I intus (reverse):
[... et sunt in moesia superior(e) sub]
[c]VRTIO. [iusto leg(ato) xxv stip(endis) emer(itis) dimis(sis)]
[h]ON(esta) M.[ission(e) quor(um) nomina subscr(ipta)]
SVNT C.[ivit(atem) Roman(am) qui eor(um) non haber(ent)]
[d]EDIT ET [conub(ium) cum uxorib(us)]
[qu]A{s=B} {t=I}VN[c habuis(sent) cum est civit(as) is dat(a) aut cum is]
Q.VA{s=C} POST(ea) [duxiss(ent) dumtax(at) singulis]
etc on tabella II intus. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired on the UK art market.
Property of a gentleman collector.
Accompanied by a copy of an illustrated transliteration report by Dr Ittai Gradel.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Footnotes
Text reconstruction following Eck-Pangerl, ‘Moesia und seine Truppen. Neue Diplome für Moesia und Moesia Superior’, Chiron 38 (2008), 369-77 – all these fragments naming Curtius Iustus go back to a constitutio dated 23. April 157 (see Eck-Pangerl for discussion: they list nine copies, including a complete one; this is the second largest number known of any constitutio; yet another – the tenth - copy published by Eck-MacDonald-Pangerl in ZPE 165 (2008), 237-9).
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LOT 0811
Roman Bronze Military Diploma Fragment Issued Under Antoninus Pius to Auxiliaries Stationed in Moesia Superior
Sold for (Inc. bp): £780
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