Roman military diploma from Moesia Superioe

Roman military diplomas are generally rare finds, and the National Museum in Belgrade possesses several of them, including this discovered in Viminacium. The diploma contains the official transcription of an imperial decree, which was on display in a public place in Rome, according to which soldiers with 25 or more years of military service were granted the right of citizenship (civitas) and the right to legal marriage (conubium). Our diploma was issued at the time of Domitian and it is dated July 12th, 96. The veteran soldier, recipient of this privilege, was Dolens, son of Sublus, a Thracian by origin who, just before his discharge, served as an infantryman in the 6th Thracian cohort, stationed in Moesia Superior, together with one Roman ala and nine other cohorts. The greatest significance of this document nowadays lies in the fact that it is evidence about a list of auxiliary Roman troops (auxilia) and the name of the governor of Moesia Superior, who was in command of the troops.