Roman Military Diploma - Emperor Antoninus Pius

Dated 26th October 153 AD. A bronze rectangular diploma tablet with dense text in two paragraphs of capitals to one face and to the other a single block in rustic capitals laid out perpendicular to the first; dated 26th October (a(nte) d(iem) VII K(alendas) Nov(embris)) AD 153 (dateable by the names of the consuls C. Cattius Marcellus and Q. Petiedius Gallus) issued by the emperor Antoninus Pius to troops serving in the province of Mauretania Tingitana under its governor (procurator) Flavius Flavianus; the name and rank of the particular soldier who received this diploma is not easy to decipher, but the unit in which he served was the Cohors III Asturum C(ivium) R(omanorum)) commanded by a [?] Flavius [….?]. The text of the diploma - apart from the details singular to the particular soldier who received the individual diploma is known from a small number other copies in various states of completeness; they can be found assembled in L. Mihailescu-Birliba & I. Dumitrache, Diplomes militaires-carrières équestres: le cas de Flavius Flavianus, in Moesica & Christiana. Studies in honour of Prof. Alexandru Barnea, (2016), pp. 67-74. 108 grams, 13cm (5 1/4"). Property of a British collector; ex Bussey collection, London, UK; previously studied and partially translated by P. John Casey F.S.A, Reader in Archaeology at Durham University between 1999 and 2000; formerly with Adolfo de Velasco; acquired in the 1950s; accompanied by a scholarly note by Dr Ittai Gradel, report number 160191.
Condition Report: Fine condition, cleaned and conserved.