Lex Rubria de Gallia Cisalpina

The Lex (Rubria) de Gallia Cisalpina (CIL XI 1146; CIL I 2 592=Bruns, Fontes 7 , no. 16 = FIRA I 2 no. 19; Crawford 1996: I.461–77 no. 28), inscribed on a bronze tablet (54–72 cm) –the fourth of an original set of five – was discovered in Veleia, near Piacenza, in 1760, and is today displayed in the National Archaeological Museum in Parma. The text – first edited in 1787 by C. R. Carli – is highly fragmentary and even its name remains uncertain. In two places (XX 29 and 38, in the formula of the repromissio damni infecti ) a lex Rubria is quoted, and for some scholars this is the original name of this statute. The Rubrian law constitutes a clear attestation of the extent to which Roman law was exported beyond Italy.

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