11. Araştırma Sonuçları Toplantısı - Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı

number of examples spread evenly over the period when they were ingreatest use from the mid-first century to the early third provides a bodyof comparative material from which to seek the parallels and linkages necessaryto restore a defective text. Thus it is possible to reconstruct a considerableportion of both texts.Both were issued in the last years of Hadrian's reign. The Anamurdiploma can be dated to the year 136 or 137, while the Alanya examplewas issued sometime between the beginning of March of 138 and Hadrian'sdeath on 10 July of the same year. The Alanya diploma specified Lycia-Pamphyliaas the province where the recipient was serving at the timeof his discharge. This information is missing on the Anamur fragınent,but the correspondence between the composition of the auxiliary armynamed in our fragment, together with the names of certain individualunits and the sequence of their listing, with a diploma of Syria-Palestineissued in 139 (CIL XVI, 87) confirms this as the province where the veteranwas serving at the time of his discharge. With the names of six regimentsof the provincial garrison recoverable, we thus have in this documentthe ear1iest record of the Roman auxiliary forces stationed in Syria­Palestine at a time no more than 24 months following the suppression ofBar-Kokhba's Jewish Revolt, a campaign in which they had almost certainlybeen engaged. In sharp contrast to the heavy military presence inSyria-Palestine is the sole cohort providing the entire auxiliary complementfor Lycia-Pamphylia, the province of service named in the Alanyadiploma. Being a provincia inermis, one single UI1it, the thousand strongFirst Cohort of the Musulami, sufficed to control this extensive territory.In addition to providing information about the provincial garrison inwhich the recipient was serving at the time of his discharge, both diplomassupply new prosopographica1 information. From the Alanya diplomawe leam the name of a previously unknown governor of Lycia­Pamphylia, Curio Navis, whose appearance represents a significant additionto the much disputed fasti of the legates of that province during thesecond half of Hadrian's reign. The Anamur fragment does not includethe name of the govemor of Syria-Palestine at the time of issue, but itdoes provide the name of previously unattested consul, Lucius AquiliusVeiento, presumably a suffect consul for either 136 or 137. Moreoverboth documents preserve the names of the commanding officer of theunit in which the recipient was serving, Gresius Firmus, tribune of theFirst Cohortof Musulami, named on the Alanya diploma, and Gaius JuliusClemens prefect of the First Cohort of Damascenes of the Anamurexample.163