Lex Ursonensis

The Lex Ursonensis 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. 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.

Lex Ursonensis
Ley de Urso
Epigraphy, legal slab
MaterialBronze
Long92.20 cm
Height59 cm
Width3 cm
Created1st century CE
Period/cultureRoman Empire
Discovered1870-75
Urso, Osuna, Seville
Present locationNational Archaeological Museum (Madrid)
Registration16736

The charter was approved by the Roman assembly as a law proposed probably by Mark Antony after the assassination of Julius Caesar.

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