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Bronze military diploma fragment

113/14 CE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 168
These discharge papers were issued by the Emperor Trajan to sailors on a warship, a quadrireme, in the imperial fleet based in Misenum on the Bay of Naples. The ship may have formed part of the flotilla that escorted the emperor from Italy to the East for the Parthian War (A.D. 114–117).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Bronze military diploma fragment
  • Period: Mid-Imperial, Trajanic
  • Date: 113/14 CE
  • Culture: Roman
  • Medium: Bronze
  • Dimensions: Overall: 3 1/16 x 2 3/4 x 1/16 in. (7.8 x 7 x 0.2 cm)
  • Classification: Bronzes
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1923
  • Object Number: 23.160.52
  • Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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