Mogetissa

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Military diploma of Mogetissa

Mogetissa ( bl. 1st / 2nd century ) was a rider of Celtic origin who served as a soldier in the Roman army and is known for having received a military diploma . He belonged to the Boier tribe and probably came from the area around Gorgobina in Gaul , where Gaius Iulius Caesar Boier settled. He was the son of a Comatullus and, with his wife Verecunda, a Sequan woman , and their daughter Matrulla, is the first resident of the Roman vicus Biriciana , today's Weißenburg in Bavaria in Middle Franconia . Mogetissa will probably have settled in the region with his family after his army service.

During construction work on the Treuchtlingen – Pleinfeld railway line in the winter of 1867, construction workers discovered Mogetissa's military diploma, which is one of the most important of its kind. It is a 16 by 13 centimeter double bronze plaque dated June 30, 107 AD, which announces the honorable discharge of the soldier from the Ala I Hispanorum Auriana stationed in Biriciana . This gave Mogetissa Roman citizenship and the right to marry , which legalized his relationship and his illegitimate child . The military diploma has been in the Römermuseum Weißenburg since 2017 .

The indoor swimming pool Mogetissa-Therme in Weißenburg is named after him.

See also

Web links

Commons : Mogetissa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Wilhelm von Christ : About a Roman military diploma found near Weissenburg . In: Meeting reports of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Part 1, 1868, p. 409-447 (on- line ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Find a Roman military diploma near Weißenburg in Middle Franconia . In: Augsburger Allgemeine . Published July 10, 1868 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Gaius Iulius Caesar: De bello Gallico 1.28.
  3. ↑ von Christ 1868: p. 410
  4. ↑ von Christ 1868: p. 433.
  5. ↑ CIL XVI, 55 . The text was first published in von Christ 1868: pp. 415-418.
  6. ↑ The Weißenburg treasure is back . Weißenburger Tagblatt . In: Nordbayern.de . Published February 23, 2017. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  7. ↑ Mogetissa thermal baths (PDF). Retrieved February 25, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Mogetissa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman rider of Celtic origin
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century