Military Diplomata – AD 145/6 (RIB 2401.10)

[IMP. C]AESAR, DIVI HADRIANI F., DIVI [TRAIAN]I PART(HICI) NEPOS, DIVI NERVAE PMN(EPOS), T . A[E]LIUS HADRIANUS ANTONINUS [AUG(USTUS)] PIUS, [P]ONT(IFEX) MAX(IMUS), TR(IBUNICIA) POT(ESTATE) VIIII, IMP(ERATOR) II, CO(N)S(UL) IIII, P(ATER) P(ATRIAE),EQ(UITIBUS) ET PEDIT(IBUS) QUI MILITAVER(UNT) IN ALIS III [ET COH(ORTIBUS) XI, QU]AE APPELL(ANTUR)

  • AUG(USTA) GALL(ORUM) PROCUL(EIANA) ET
  • I [PANNON(IORUM) SABIN(IANA)?J’ ET
  • I HISP(ANORUM) ASTUR(UM); ET
  • I CELTIB(ERORUM) ET
  • I HISP(ANORUM) ET
  • [I] AELIA DACOR(UM) 2 ET
  • I AELIA CLASSICA ET (S)
  • I FID(A) [V]ARD(ULLORUM) ET
  • II GALLOR(UM) ET
  • II ET
  • VI NERV(IORUM) E[T
  • III] BRAC( ARAUGUSTANORUM) ET
  • (TO) 1111 LING(ONUM) ET
  • IIII GALL(ORUM),

ET SUNT IN BRITTANNIA SUB PAPIRIOAELIANO, 5 QUINQ[UE ET VIGJINTI6 STIPEND(IS) EMERIT(IS)DIM(ISSIS) HON(ESTA) MIS[S(IONE)],[QUOR(UM) NOMIN(A) SUBSCR(IPTA)J SUNT, C(IVITATEM )R(OMANAM), QUI EORU[M NON HABER(ENT) DED(IT) ET]CONUB(IUM) CUM’ UXOR(IBUS) [QUAS TUNC HABUISS(ENT), ]CUM EST CIV(ITAS) ITS D[AT(A)

The Emperor Caesar T . Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, son of the deified Hadrianus, grandson
of the deified Traianus, conqueror of Parthia, great grandson of the deified Nerva, pontifex maximus, in his ninth year of tribunician power, twice acclaimed Imperator, four times consul, father of his country, has
granted to the cavalrymen and infantrymen who served in three alae and eleven cohorts called :

  • Augusta Gallorum Proculeiana and
  • I [Pannoniorum Sabiniana?] and
  • I Hispanorum Asturum ; and
  • I Celtiberorum and
  • I Hispanorum and
  • I Aeli a Dacorum and
  • I Aelia classica and
  • I fida Vardullorum and
  • II Gallorum and
  • II and
  • VI Nerviorum and
  • III Bracaraugustanorum and
  • 1111 Lingonum and
  • 1111 Gallorum,

and are stationed in Britain under Papirius Aelianus, who have served twenty-five years and have been honourably discharged, whose names are written below, Roman citizenship to those who do not possess it, and the right of legal marriage with the wives they had at the time citizenship was given to them A.D . 145 (Dec.10)/146(Dec . 9)