CERTIFIED Roman Antiquity Military Diploma Soldier DATED Time of Trajan w/COA For Sale

Roman 'Equites Singulares' Diploma Fragment. Dated, issued under Trajan. Possibily the earliest recorded diploma for the equites singulares, issued to a member of the imperial mounted bodyguard; latin text to both sides; Translating to: ‘Emperor Caesar, son of the deified Trajan Parthicus, grandson of the deified Nerva, Trajan Hadrian Augustus, Pontifex Maximus, holding tribunician power for the 17th time, three times consul, father of the nation, grants to the cavalrymen who have fulfilled service among the (emperor’s) personal corps, commanding officer being ..., for twenty-five years or more and received honourable discharge, whose names are written below, to themselves and their children and their descendants, (Roman) citizenship and legal recognition of their liaison with wives they have had up to the time when citizenship was granted to them, or - if they be unmarried - with those they may thereafter have taken as wives, provided only one wife for each veteran at any given time; l, when Marcus Antonius Hiberus and Publius Mummius Sisenna were consuls ]; [name of the individual veteran recipient of the grant]; copied from and checked against the original bronze tablet which is displayed in Rome on the wall behind the temple of the deified Augustus, by (the statue of) Minerva. [Text then repeated on reverse, ending with names of six witnesses to the document]’.
For fragment of another diploma with the same text, being the earliest known diploma for the equites singulares, and now with this fragment is known in two copies, see: AE 1994, 1519 = Roxan, Margaret M., Roman Military Diplomas 1985-1993, UCL/IoA, Occasional Publication 14, 1994, no.158 (a photocopy of the entry is included for reference), or here online: cf. commentary by W. Eck & A. Pangerl in ZPE 193 (2015), 258 (in German").
Property of a London, UK collector; acquired London market, 1990s. The equites singulares were the personal cavalry of the emperor being the mounted arm of the Praetorian Guard and were based in Rome at the Caelian Hill; they also formed part of the personal escort to the emperor when he travelled. It is believed that the unit comprised about 1000 horsemen in the time of Hadrian, divided into turmae or squadrons and, from the Trajani
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