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🪔 For #EpigraphyTuesday: Military diploma of a Lycian sailor of the Miseno fleet, Sextus Memmius Clearchi. Dated to 16 November 140 AD, it attests to the granting of Roman citizenship to a Lycian (mstdn.archaeo.social)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] Could you please give us a bit more info on the original text & translation, materials, location of the artefact, etc? perhaps in Alt-text?
This sounds intriguing, but why would a diploma be inscribed in ?metal/stone? What was the qualification achieved? Why would it simultaneously mention citizenship? ... etc?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] sure, here is the link to the BNF sute with a description of this tablet : https://medaillesetantiques.bnf.fr/ws/catalogue/app/collection/record/ark:/12148/c33gbqdhx

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

@[email protected] Thanks for this lead, which has introduced me to a whole class of informative artefacts!
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#TIL about Roman military diplomas from https://www.romancoins.info/MilitaryDiploma1a.html (fascinating, highly recommended) - & the etymology of 'diploma', "folded in two"! https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B4%CE%AF%CF%80%CE%BB%CF%89%CE%BC%CE%B1#Ancient_Greek

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