Military Diplomata – AD 135 (RIB 2401.9)

[IMP. CAES(AR), DIVI HADRIANI F., DIVI TRAIANI PARTH(ICI) NEP(OS), DIVI .VERVAE PRONEP(OS)], T. AE[LIUS HADRIANUS ANTONIN]US AUG(USTUS) PIUS, P(ONTIFEX) M(AXIMUS), [TR(IBUNICIA) POT(ESTATE) VII11, IMP(ERATOR) II], CO(N)S(UL) 1111, P(ATER) P(ATRIAE) N [EQ(UITIBUS) ET PED(ITIBUS) Q(UI) M(ILITAVERUNT) IN AL(IS) ] ET COH(ORTIBUS) VIII ET SU[NT2 IN BNITANNIA3 SUB P[APIRIO AELIANO 4 QUINQUE ET VIGINTRS STIPEND(IS) EMERIT( IS) DIMIS(SIS) HONEST(A) MISSION(E) ,

QUOR(UM) NOMIN(A) SUBSCRIPT(A) SUET, CIVIT(ATEM)ROMAN(AM), QUI EOR(UM)J NON HA[BERENT DEDIT, ET CONUB(IUM) CUM UXOR(IBUS)J QUAS TUN[C HABUISS(ENT) , CUM EST CIVIT(AS) IS DJATA, AUT CUM [IS QUAS POSTE A DUXISS(ENT) DU]MTAXAT SING[ULIS . A . D, J O [SEX.] ERUC[IO CLAM II, CN .] CLAUDIO SEVERN ARABIANO COS] ‘ [CO]H(ORTIS) I TUN[GROR(UM) (MILLIARIAE) (?), 8 CUI PRAEST .] PATERNIU[S 9 EX T O A]MANDIO [ F. ; J. I N [DESC]NIPT(UM) ET [RECOGNIT(UM) EX TABUL(A) AEREA GJUAE FI[XA EST ROMAE IN MURO POST TEMPL(UM) DIV I AUG(USTI) AD MYLINERVAM] .

The Emperor Caesar T. Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, son of the deified Hadrianus, grandson
of the deified Trajanus, conqueror of Parthia, greatgrandson 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 … alae and eight cohorts 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, or with those they later marry, but only one each in the consulships of Sextus Erucius Clarus (for the second time) and of Gnaeus Claudius Severus Arabianus (January-March, 146). To Amandius, son of from ex infantryman (?) of cohors I Tungrorum (a thousand strong?), commanded by Paternius. 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 .