Lex Irnitana ‒ The Flavian Municipal Law

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  • Milan Lovenjak University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Slovenia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4312/keria.23.1.19-95

Keywords:

Roman history, Roman law, epigraphy, Roman city-laws, local administration, Lex Irnitana

Abstract

The article deals with the statute of the Municipium Flavium Irnitanum in the modern province of Seville in southern Spain, which is known by the six bronze plates discovered in 1981. The text of the Lex Irnitana and of two other municipal statutes of the ancient Salpensa and Malaca, which largerly overlap with the survivig chapters of the lex Irnitana, shows that all three followed the same law. Of the 97 chapters of the Flavian municipal law, 73 are known. The missing initial sections probably related to the formation of the assembly (contio) and the City Council. The survivig chapters deal with local magistrates, different types of elections, administrative and financial matters, local jurisdiction, the selection of judges, civil proceedings etc. The local jurisdiction was considered the real criterion of autonomy and, as such, with chapters 84 to 92, it occupies more space than any other area.

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24.08.2021

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