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Fragment of a military diploma, Mid-Imperial, Trajanic, 113/14 a.d.RomanBronze Most surviving Roman military diploma belonged to army veterans. These discharge papers, however, 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 (114–117 A.D.).

Fragment of a military diploma, Mid-Imperial, Trajanic, 113/14 a.d.
Roman
Bronze

Most surviving Roman military diploma belonged to army veterans. These discharge papers, however, 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 (114–117 A.D.).

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    Discharge papers used...be so cool like this. Now they’re just papers
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    Military diploma. Cool. ps....badass. Just look at
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    I wonder how long it took...carve that…perhaps...graduate...
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