An interesting military diploma fragment
Lot 1929
Uncertain, 78 or 136. Military Diploma (Bronze, 47.7 mm, 13.00 g), under the consulship of L. Ceionius Commodus. Fragmentary, otherwise, very fine.




Obverse:
[QVORVM NOMINA SVBSCRIPTA SVNT IPSIS LIBERIS POSTERISQVE EORVM CIVITATEM DEDIT ET CONVBIUM CVM VXORIBVS QVAS TVNC HABVISSENT CVM EST CIVITAS IIS DATA AVT SI QVI]
CA[ELIBES ESSENT CVM IIS QVAS POSTEA]
DVXI[SSENT DVMTAXAT SINGVLI SINGVLAS]
A(nte) [(D(iem) ...]
L(ucio)•CEIONIO•C[OMMODO ...] CO(n)S[VLIBVS]
COHORT[IS] II [...]
[...]VLIV [...].

Translation:
[...] whose names are written below, to themselves, their children and descendants, and the right of legal marriage with the spouses they had at the moment when citizenship was given to them, or, if any were
unmarried, with those whom they later
married, insofar as each has only one (wife).
(Issued) the day before [...],
in the consulship of L. Ceionius Commodus and [...].

Reverse:
C•POLE[...]
[...] CO[...]
[...]ALIL[...]
[...] ET [...]

Comment:
Military diplomas dated with the consulship of a L. Ceionius Commodus are known for both 78 and 136 AD. The former date is more common than the latter, but the fragmentary state of the fragment makes a definitive attribution difficult.
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