One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 78519

Certified copy of Domitian's edict for veterans of legion XXII Deiotariana TM 78519Probably Alexandria, province of Egypt(Late) Ist century A.D. (82 or 95 A.D.[?])

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A witnessed Latin copy, made at Alexandria, of an edict of the emperor Domitian concerning veterans of the legion XXII Deiotariana honourably discharged after 20 years of service. The edict granted Roman citizenship and the right of legal marriage (conubium) with their wives; the copy was certified as taken from a bronze tablet in the Great Caesareum.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of Imperator Caesar Domitian Augustus, son of the deified Vespasian, and Flavius Clemens, […] of the veterans enrolled […] at Alexandria near Egypt […] son of Sextus, of the Galerian tribe, […] called to witness those who were going to seal that he had copied and checked it from the bronze tablet which is fixed in the Great Caesareum under the left-hand portico on the wall, on which was written what is written below: Imperator Caesar Domitian Augustus, son of the deified Vespasian, pontifex maximus, holding the tribunician power for the 15th time, says: It has seemed good to me to proclaim that of those who served in Egypt in the legion XXII Deiotariana, who, having completed 20 years of service, were discharged with honourable discharge, whose names are written below, […] he gave Roman citizenship and the right of marriage with the wives whom they then had […]

Much of the text is restored from parallel veteran documents; the consular date with Flavius Clemens and the 15th tribunician power point to AD 95, though AD 82 has also been proposed. Conubium is the legal right to contract a valid Roman marriage.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Honorable Discharge of a Legionary Soldier). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Honorable Discharge of a Legionary Soldier

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Mich. inv. 2753 · (Late) Ist century A.D. (82 or 95 A.D.[?]) · Probably Alexandria, province of Egypt

Witnessed copy of the imperial edict that gave Roman citizenship to the children of veterans of the legio XXII Deioteriana, and a right of marriage (conubium) to these veterans themselves; this copy must have been made for one of these

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p.mich.7.432

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · (Late) Ist century A.D. (82 or 95 A.D.[?]) · Probably Alexandria, province of Egypt

Imperatore Caesare divi Vespasiani filio Domitiano Augusto Flavio Clemente consulibus[…] veteranorum ascriptorum[…] Alexandriaead Aegyptum[…] Sexti filius Galeria[…] testatus est eos qui signaturi essent se discriptum et recognitum fecisse ex tabula aenea quae fixa est in Caesare…