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A ROMAN BRONZE MILITARY DIPLOMA FOR MARCUS AURELIUS POSIDONIUS
REIGN OF SEVERUS ALEXANDER, 231 A.D.
A ROMAN BRONZE MILITARY DIPLOMA FOR MARCUS AURELIUS POSIDONIUS REIGN OF SEVERUS ALEXANDER, 231 A.D. Formed from two rectangular tablets, once joined by two central binding holes, each engraved in Latin on both sides, reading: "The Emperor Caesar, son of the deified Antoninus Magnus Pius (Elagabalus), grandson of the deified Severus, Pius Felix Augustus, ponitfex maximus , holding tribunician power for the tenth year, consul three times, father of his country has (appended) the names of the soldiers who have served in the ten praetorian cohorts Alexandriana (Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10), loyal protectors, who have loyally and bravely completed their service, and has granted the right of legal marriage with the first wives (one each only) so that even if they have married women of peregrine status they may raise children as if they had been born of two Roman citizens. On the seventh day before the Ides of January (7 January) when L. Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus and Titus Flavius Sallustius Peilignianus were consuls (7 January 231). The eighth praetorian cohort, loyal protectors, to Marcus Aurelius, son of Marcus, Posidonius from Augusta Traina. Copied and checked from the bronze tablet, which is fixed to the wall at Rome behind the temple of the deified Augustus, near (the shrine?) of Minerva. Witnessed by: C. Iulius Romanus, M. Aurelius Montanus, T. Claudius Marcellus, M. Aurelius Valens, M. Aurelius [----]ius, C. Iulius [----]ens, M. Aurelius [----]ulanus" 5 5/8 x 4¼ in. (14.2 x 10.7 cm.) (2)