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A new Roman Customs List1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

R. Cagnat
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The ‘Service des Monuments historiques de l'Algérie,’ in carrying out, during 1913, some excavations in the middle of the ruins of the Roman town of Lambaesis (not in the fortress of the Legio III Augusta) discovered, not very far from the Capitol and the probable site of the Forum, an inscribed fragment, which I wish here to discuss fig. 14). It had been used up in building a wall of a late epoch, and, in consequence, was not in its original position; but it is not likely to have strayed very far. The text inscribed on it had obviously been arranged in several columns, probably in two. There remain now, in any case, parts of two columns; the right part of the left-hand column, and the left part of the right-hand column. The letters are 2·5 cm. high, and resemble in style the writing au calame which, especially in Africa, denotes the age of Hadrian and of Pius.

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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 4 , November 1914 , pp. 143 - 146
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Copyright ©R. Cagnat 1914. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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page 143 note 2 Typical examples may be found in my Cours d'épigraphie (ed. 4), plate x, 2, 3. It will be recollected that in this style of writing the letters I, T, L, E, are very similar, especially if the stone is a trifle worn.

page 143 note 3 C.I.L. viii, 4508.

page 144 note 1 See Héron de Villefosse, Comptes rendus de la Société de numismatique, vi (1875), p. 203 ffGoogle Scholar.

page 144 note 2 R. Billiard, La vigne dans l'antiquité, p. 311 foll.

page 144 note 3 Plin. Hist. nat. xiv, 21Google Scholar; Columella, iii, 9, 3; Macrob. Sat. iii, 20, 7Google Scholar.

page 144 note 4 Waddington, Édit de Dioclétien, p. 9.

page 144 note 5 Bull. Comun. 1879. p. 56; C.I.L. xv, 4932.

page 144 note 6 For Syria see Plin. xiv, 41; for Bithynia, Galen, vi, 337; for Lydia, Probus ad Virg. Georg. ii.

page 144 note 7 Billiard, op. cit. p. 500 ff.

page 145 note 1 C.I.L. viii, 18224: Sabinius Ingenuus et Aurelius Sedatus sig. leg. III Aug. agentes cura(m) macelli.

page 145 note 2 De Ruggiero, Dizion. epigr. s.v. (p. 993, col. 1).

page 145 note 3 See my Armée d'Afrique (ed. 2), p. 191.

page 145 note 4 Dig. xxxix, 4, 9, 7.

page 145 note 5 Moniteur, 6th Dec. 1858.

page 146 note 1 Étude sur le camp et la ville de Lambèse (trad. Thédenat), p. 37, note 1.

page 146 note 2 See also Rostowtzew, , Geschichte der Staatspacht (Philologus, Ergänzungsband, ix), p. 403Google Scholar.