A NEW FRAGMENT OF A MILITARY DIPLOMA FOR THE EQUITES SINGULARES AUGUSTI
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https://doi.org/10.14795/jaha.12.3.2025.1378Keywords:
Military diploma, imperial constitution, equites singulares Augusti, Septimius SeverusAbstract
This paper publishes a new fragment of a military diploma copied from an imperial constitution concerning the emperor’s horse guards (equites singulares Augusti). The authors tentatively propose that Septimius Severus granted it in the summer of AD 195, during his Parthian expedition.
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