Lex Ursonensis
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The Lex Ursonensis[1] is the foundation charter of the Caesarean colonia Iulia Genetiva at Urso near Osuna (province of Seville, Andalusia) in southern Spain. A copy of its text was inscribed on bronze under the Flavians, portions of which were discovered in 1870/71.[2] The original law spanned nine tablets with three or five columns of text each and comprised over 140 sections (rubricae).[3] Of these four tablets survive, including sections 61-82, 91-106 and 123-134. Remains are kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Spain, in Madrid.
The charter was approved by the Roman assembly as a law proposed probably by Mark Antony after the assassination of Julius Caesar.
Bibliography
- M. H. Crawford (1996). Roman Statutes. pp. no.25 (with text, English translation and commentary).
- J. González (ed.), ed. (1989). Estudios sobre Urso: La colonia Iulia Genetiva.
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Notes
- ^ CIL II, 5439
- ^ Ernst FABRICIUS (1916). Die Rasuren Bei Der Lex Ursonensis.
- ^ Jorg Rupke (28 May 2012). Religion in Republican Rome: Rationalization and Ritual Change. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 126–. ISBN 0-8122-0657-6.
External links
- Lex Ursonensis (Latin)
- English translation
- English translation of a recently discovered fragment of the charter