Lex Ursonensis

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The lex Ursonensis is the foundation charter of the Caesarean colonia Iulia Genetiva at Urso near Osuna (province of Seville) in southern Spain. A copy of its text was inscribed on bronze under the Flavians, portions of which were discovered in 1870/71. The original law spanned nine tablets with three or five columns of text each and comprised over 140 sections (rubricae). 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 Anthony after the assassination of Julius Caesar.

[edit] Bibliography

• M. H. Crawford (1996). Roman Statutes, no.25 (with text, English translation and commentary). 
• (1989) in J. González (ed.): Estudios sobre Urso: La colonia Iulia Genetiva.