Part 3a: Provincial Auxiliary Units
The outer sides of tabulae I and II, from Hadrian,
from Britannia,
the soldier is from Pannonia, note the witnesses names on the right
scan
(British Museum, London)
MARCUS AURELIUS & his son COMMODUS, 23 March, 178 A.D., under
the
consulship of Sergius Scipio Orfitus and P. Velius Rufus, Britannia
under
the governor Ulpius Marcellus, to the cavalryman Thiophorus, a Dacian
of
the VII Thracian cohort, under the command of Ulpius Marcianus. (from
the
Axel Guttmann collection)
Tabula I outer side, tabula II inner side, for a spanish born
soldier
who served in Britannia (British Museum, London)
The above example is a Tabula I, of Hadrian,
Province of Cilicia.
Note the holes for the wire. Left is the outer side, right is the inner
side with roughly half the text of the outer side. The remaining half
of
the text had been on the inner side of Tabula II. Now in the
RGZM,
Mainz, Germany
Dacia, Dacia inferior,
Dacia superior, Dacia porolissensis
(scans to follow)
The inner sides of tabulae I and II of Titus,
from Egypt
(British
Museum, London)
Tabula 1, from Germania Inferior, the
governor named is ImpTraianus
Aug in 98 AD (Nijmegen Museum)
other side of the same diploma from Germania inferior
Diploma from Germania Inferior under
Hadrian, note the
wire that holds the two tabulae together. During the consulship of
Licinius
Celer and Rufus, granting Roman citizenship and marriage rights, to a
former
cavalryman from Dacia of the IV Thracian cohort under the command of
Lucius
Porcius Crescens. Germania Inferior was at that time under
the governor
Lucius Coelius Rufus (from the Axel Guttmann collection)
Under Domitian for Germania superior (private collection
Published W
Eck, A. Pangerl, ZPE)
Diploma under Domitian for the auxiliary
units of Judea
Lycia & Pamphylia
(scan to follow)
under Hadrian for Mauretania Caesariensis, (private
collection, published
W Eck, A. Pangerl)
Mauretania Tingitana
(scan to follow)
Moesia Inferior
(scan to follow)
Moesia superior
under Hadrian
(private collection)
under Antoninus Pius
(Weißenburg
Museum)
Complete Diploma of Titus for the province Noricum
outer side of
tabula 1inner side
of Tabula 1
outer side of tabula 2
Pannonia inferior
Complete Diploma of Antoninus Pius for the province
of Pannonia
inferior (private collection)
Pannonia superior
Diploma under Vespasian, 71 AD, with the
consuls being
L. Flavius Fimbria and C. Atilius Barbarus. Issued for the Ala I
Brittonuman,
commanded by M. (son of M.) Coelius Sergia Honoratus, to the cavalry
trooper
Cersus, son of Denturasadus, a Thracian. This unit served probably in
Pannonia
at this time. Pannonia was not yet split in superior and inferior at
that
time, so this well preserved table serves only as "place holder" for
this
province. (art market)
Raetia
Arcahelogical
Museum, Munich. Germany
Syria
Syria, under Domitian,
(from the art market)
Syria Palaestina, under Antoninus Pius, 160 AD, (from the art
market,
published W Eck, A Pangerl)