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The Lex Irnitana: a New Copy of the Flavian Municipal Law*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

Julián González
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In the spring of 1981, on a hill called Molino del Postero, in undulating territory 5 km south-west of El Saucejo and 3 km north-east of Algámitas, in the province of Seville, a group of men looking for ancient coins and armed with metal-detectors discovered six bronze tablets and some small fragments of other tablets, containing part of the municipal law of a hitherto unknown town, the Municipium Flavium Irnitanum. Although the name of the town was probably Irni, since ancient place-names in Spain ending with -i are very common, such as Astigi, Ucubi, Tucci, Iptuci etc, a name such as Irnium remains possible.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 76 , November 1986 , pp. 147 - 243
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Copyright © Julián González 1986. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

1 There have been so far a number of articles on different aspects of the law, publications of individual chapters and a Spanish translation of the whole: A. d'Ors, SDHI 48 (1982), 368–84, ‘Litem suam facere’; AHDE 53 (1983), 5–15 ‘La nueva copia irnitana de la “lex Flavia municipalis”’; SDHI 49 (1983) 18–50 ‘Nuevos datos de la ley Irnitana sobre jurisdicción municipal’; ‘Una nueva lista de acciones infamantes’ in Sodalitas. Scritti Guarino (1984), 2575–90Google Scholar; SDHI 50 (1984), 179–98, ‘De nuevo sobre la ley municipal’; AHDE 54 (1984), 535–73, ‘La ley Flavia municipal’ (Spanish translation); Giménez-Candela, T., RIDA 30 (1983), 125–40, ‘La lex Irnitana: une nouvelle loi municipale de la Bétique’Google Scholar; Iura 32 (1981, pub. 1984), 37–56, ‘Una contribucción al estudio de la ley Irnitana: la manumisión de esclavos municipales’.

2 Millar, , Emperor, 630–5Google Scholar; against, already, Humbert, M., Ktema 1981, 207Google Scholar, ‘Le droit latin impérial’; Spitzl, 6–7. See commentary on Chs. 28 and 72, and 53.

3 So already Sherwin-White, 378–9.

4 Naturally, not everyone adopted the tria notnina at once, see Alföldy, G., Latomus 1966, 37Google Scholar, ‘Le droit de cité et la nomenclature’, at 47–52.

5 Praedes and praedia were probably institutions created for situations in which the Roman state required security, see commentary on Chs. 60 and 63; Kniep, 10; Dig. L, 16, 16 (Gaius), ‘eum qui uectigal populi Romani conductum habet publicanum appellamus; nam publica appellatio in compluribus causis ad populum Romanum respicit; ciuitates enim priuatorum loco habentur’.

6 See Liebenam, 357, with earlier bibliography, for the sparse and ambiguous evidence on ‘police’ forces; Stahl, 99–105, on the limitations on criminal jurisdiction in cities; it may be that the situation in the Greek world was different from that in the west, see Millar, F., JRS 1981, 63, ‘The world of the Golden Ass’, at 70–2Google Scholar.

7 See, provisionally, Mommsen, 346–9.

8 Römische Prozessgesetze (1888, 1891) 1, 190–4; 11, 221–3, 274–5; Der Judikationsbefehl (1921), 274–6.

9 There are insufficient grounds for attributing the fragment published in D'Ors, A., Ampurias 1967, 293Google Scholar, ‘Una nueva inscripción ampuritana’, to the text of a municipal law.