| Lex Ursonensis | |
|---|---|
| Ley de Urso | |
_01.jpg) Epigraphy, legal slab | |
| Material | Bronze |
| Long | 92.20 cm |
| Height | 59 cm |
| Width | 3 cm |
| Created | 1st century CE |
| Period/culture | Roman Empire |
| Discovered | 1870-75 Urso, Osuna, Seville |
| Present location | National Archaeological Museum (Madrid) |
| Registration | 16736 |
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.
- ^ 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.