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| | MILITARY DIPLOMA 160 AD |
 | | A bronze military diploma, dated Martius VII, CMXIII AUC (March 7, 160AD), 132 mm / 5.25 inches high and 100 mm / 4 inches wide, with a well-rendered, nearly complete exterior inscription, three-quarters of which is repeated in the less carefully engraved interior inscription. |
 | | Vaxadus, the recipiant of the present diploma, born in Syedra in Cilicia, was discharged after 25 years of service from Cohors I Sebastenorum Milliaria, that had been based in Syria Palestina (the name to the former province Judia upon the defeat of the Bar Kochba Revolt in 135) at least since the Flavian period. |
 | | His unit had surely been actively involved in the military action during the Bar Kochba revolt and seems to have lost a substantial number of soldiers. |
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