Bronze military diploma

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 168

These tablets record that in A.D. 149, the Emperor Antoninus Pius granted Roman citizenship and the right to legal marriage to discharged veterans of foreign birth who had served for twenty-five years in auxiliary units. Each veteran received a copy of the law inscribed on two bronze tablets fastened together with wires, which were officially sealed. This copy belonged to an infantryman named Dasmenus Azalus, clearly a man of Near Eastern origin.

Bronze military diploma, Bronze, Roman

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Bronze military diploma, Bronze, Roman
Bronze military diploma, Bronze, Roman
Bronze military diploma, Bronze, Roman
Bronze military diploma, Bronze, Roman

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