07-18-2016, 08:00 AM
Dear Damian
epigraphic of the roman empire is in itself a separate science, we have lots of documents mostly inscriptions, but also papyri or ostraca, from this period, we have the military diplomata and so on. There is a wealth of information out there, we can follow sometimes individuals from time to time in different provinces and different posts, not ONLY the big names but also rather insignificant individuals.
if you look at CIL = Latin Inscriptions Corpus you will find lots of inscriptions that permit us to have a look through the roman society as a whole, emperors, senators, cavaliers, sellers, beggars even slaves have left over their footprints for us.
Coser to your questions would me the RMD (roman Military Diplomas) where individuals are freed from the army getting their rewards.
epigraphic of the roman empire is in itself a separate science, we have lots of documents mostly inscriptions, but also papyri or ostraca, from this period, we have the military diplomata and so on. There is a wealth of information out there, we can follow sometimes individuals from time to time in different provinces and different posts, not ONLY the big names but also rather insignificant individuals.
if you look at CIL = Latin Inscriptions Corpus you will find lots of inscriptions that permit us to have a look through the roman society as a whole, emperors, senators, cavaliers, sellers, beggars even slaves have left over their footprints for us.
Coser to your questions would me the RMD (roman Military Diplomas) where individuals are freed from the army getting their rewards.
