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9 - Law and Life in Roman Harbours

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2020

By
Jean-Jacques Aubert
Edited by
Pascal Arnaud  and
Simon Keay
Pascal Arnaud
Affiliation:
Université Lumière Lyon II
Simon Keay
Affiliation:
University of Southampton
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Summary

My starting point is a scholarly mess. A few years ago,I came across a very special Latin inscription. Itwas reportedly found ‘pochi anni fa’ (as of 1995) inthe harbour of Rhodes during some reconstruction andenlargement work. It was described as a column ofwhite marble, 220 cm high, with a diameter of 125cm, ‘testimonianza marmorea della lex Rhodia de iactuproveniente da un antico edificio portuale di Rodi’.According to the first editor, the Greek legalscholar Giorgio S. Marcou, it reads, in ‘six orseven lines’ (?): LEX RODIA [sic] CAVETVR (sic) VT (sic) SI LEVANDAE NAVIS GRATIA IACTVS(sic) MERCIVM FACTVM(sic) EST ONIVM(sic) CONTRIBVTIONESARCITVR (sic) QVODPRO OMNIBVS DATVM EST.

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Roman Port Societies
The Evidence of Inscriptions
 , pp. 198 - 215
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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