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A Hitherto Unrecognised Cornovian on a Roman Military Diploma (RMD I, 35)*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2017

Dan Dana
Dan Dana*
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CNRS/ANHIMA (UMR 8210), Paris ddana_ddan@yahoo.com
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Abstract

A military diploma of 2 July a.d. 133 (RMD I, 35), first discovered in 1960 but published several times since, has provoked a debate concerning the origin of the discharged soldier, with commentators proposing either Corinium in Britain or the Cornacates in Lower Pannonia. The new reading presented here suggests that the soldier was actually Cornovian, allowing a reassessment of the recruitment of Brittones in the Roman auxilia.

Keywords

BritainCornoviansDaciaonomasticsrecruitmentRoman military diplomas
Type
Shorter Contributions
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Britannia , Volume 48 , November 2017 , pp. 287 - 298
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2017. Published by The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies 

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Footnotes

*

The following abbreviations are used:AE

L'Année Épigraphique (1888– )

CIL

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (1863– )

IDR

Inscriptiones Daciae Romanae (1975– )

ISM

Inscriptiones Scythiae Minoris Graecae et Latinae (1980‒ )

HD

Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg

ND

Notitia Dignitatum (ed. O. Seeck, Berlin, 1876)

OPEL

B. Lőrincz and F. Redö (eds), Onomasticon Provinciarum Europae Latinarum I‒IV (1994‒2005)

RIB I

R.G. Collingwood and R.P.Wright (eds), The Roman Inscriptions of Britain I, Inscriptions on Stone (1965)

RZGM

B. Pferdehirt, Römische Militärdiplome und Entlassungsurkunden in der Sammlung des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums I–II (2004)

RMD

M.M. Roxan (then P. Holder), Roman Military Diplomas (1978– )

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