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1882
Volume 14, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 2031-5937
  • E-ISSN: 2295-9041

Abstract

Abstract

Un fragment de plaque de bronze inscrit sur ses deux faces, découvert fortuitement par les archéologues saoudiens à al- Badʿ (Hisma, nord-ouest de l’Arabie saoudite), s’avère appartenir à un diplôme militaire romain. Son texte, latin, peut être en grande partie reconstitué grâce à un document de même type, plus long, préalablement publié et de provenance inconnue. La date est au premier semestre 142 apr. J.-C. Huit unités auxiliaires romaines, deux ailes de cavalerie (dont une de méharistes) et six cohortes de fantassins, y sont mentionnées. Al-Badʿ avait déjà livré dans les années 1970 un fragment d’inscription militaire romaine monumentale : il est plausible qu’une unité y ait eu son camp permanent, éventuellement la Ire aile vétérane des Gétules ou l’aile ulpienne des méharistes palmyréniens.

Abstract

A bronze plate fragment, inscribed on both sides, incidentally discovered by Saudi archaelogists at al-Badʿ (Hisma, Northwestern Saudi Arabia), has proven to be part of a Roman military diploma. Its text-in Latin-can be widely restituted by comparison with a longer document of the same type, which was published earlier but whose place of discovery is unknown. The date is 142, first semester. Eight auxiliary Roman units-two alae of cavalry (one of them being of meharis) and six pedestrian cohorts are mentioned. In the 1970’s, Al-Badʿ already provided a fragment of a monumental Roman military inscription: it is thus plausible that a unit had its permanent camp there, possibly the 1st “veteran” ala of Gaetuli or the Ulpian ala of Palmyrenian meharis.

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