Military Diplomata – AD 135 (RIB 2401.8)

[IMP. CAES(AR), DIVI TRAIAN(I) PARTH(ICI) F., DIVI] NERV(AE) NEPOS, TRA[IN_N]US [HADRIANUS AUG(USTUS) , PONT(IFEX) MAX(IMUS), TRIB(UNICIA) POT(ESTATE) ] XVIIII, CO(N)S(UL) III, P(ATER) P(ATRIAE) T [EQ(UITIBUS) ET PED(ITIBUS) QUI MIL(ITAVERUNT) IN AL(IS) . .2 ET COH(ORTIBUS)] X.. \XI3 QUAE APP(ELLANTUR) (R ) AUG(USTA) GAL(LORUM) [PROC(ULEIANA) 3 ET . . . ET . . . ET
. . .] ET PETR(IANA) (MILLIARIA) ET I AST(UTUM) ET [I] TUN(GROTUEN;? [ET JR(ZAN?) ET 1 VARD(ULLORUM)
(MILLIARIA) ET I ET II’ [. . . . ET . . . ]NG(. . .) (MILLIANA) 3 ET I HAM(IORUM) ET I ET II DAL(MATARUM) [E T
. . . .]N(. . .)NAUT(ARUM)6 ET I B(A)ET(ASIORUM) ET 1 BAT(AVORUM) [ET J ET III ET 1111 ET VI
NERV(IORUM) [ET J ET (3O) V GAL(LORUM) ET (31 ) VII THR(ACUM) 7 ET [SUNT IN BRITANN(IA) SUB MUMMIO] SISENNA, 8 QUIN(IS) ET VICEN(IS) [PLU(RIBUS)VE V STIP(ENDIS) EMER(ITIS) DIMISS]IS HONEST(A) MISSIONE , [QUO]R(UM) NOM(INA) SUBSCNPT(A) SUNT, IPSIS LIBERIS POS[TENS]Q(UE) EOR(UM) CIVIT(ATEM) DEDIT ET CONUB(ITVN ) CUM UXORIBUS, QUAS TUNE HABUISSENT, CUNT EST CIVIT(AS ) ITS DATA, AUT SIQUI CAELIB(ES) ESSENT, CUM ITS QUA S POST(EA) T0 DUXISSENT DTUNTAXTAT SI IGULI SINGULAS . A.D. XVIII K . MAI. L. TUTILIO PONTIANO, P. CALPURNIO ATILIANO COS .” COH(ORTIS) II DALMATARUM CUI PRAEST [.] JULIUS MAXIMUS, ROMA, EX PEDITE [MA]NSUETO LUCI F TREVER(O)’2 [DES]CRIPT(UM) ET RECOGNIT(UM) EX TABUL(A) AENEA, QUA E FIXA EST ROMAE IN MURO POST TEMPLUM DIVI AUG(USTI) AD MINERVAM.

The Emperor Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, son of the deified Traianus conqueror of Parthia,
grandson of the deified Nerva, pontifex maximus, in his nineteenth year of tribunician power, three times
consul, father of his country, has granted to the cavalry-men and infantrymen who served in . . . alae and
thirty-one cohorts called :

  • (I) Augusta Gallorum Proculeiana and
  • . . . and Petriana, a thousand strong, and
  • I Asturum and
  • [I] Tungrorum ;
  • (?) and
  • . . . . rum (? ) and
  • I Vardullorum, a thousand strong and
  • I and
  • II . . .
    and I Vangionum (?), a thousand strong and
  • I Hamiorum and
  • I and
  • II Dalmatarum and
  • . n(. . .) nautarum and
  • I Baetasiorum and
  • I Batavorum and
  • . . . and
    III and
  • 1111 and
  • VI Nerviorum and
  • . . . and

(3o) V

Gallorum and (31) VII Thracum and are in Britain under Mummius Sisenna, who have served twenty-five
or more years and have been honourably discharged , whose names are written below, citizenship for themselves, their children and descendants, and the right of legal marriage with the wives they had when citizenship was granted to them, or, if any were unmarried, with those they later marry, but only a single one each. 14 April in the consulships of L . Tutilius Pontianus and P. Calpurnius Atilianus (A .D . 135)
To Mansuetus son of Lucius, of the Treveri, exinfantryman of cohors II Dalmatarum, commanded by
Julius Maximus, from Rome. Copied and checked from the bronze tablet set up at Rome on the wall behind the temple of the deified Augustus near (the statue of) Minerva .