La ley municipal de Basilipo

Four new bronze fragments (published by Julián González in SDHI 49, 1983, pp. 395399) of the municipal charter of Basilipo (near Hispalis, in the Baetica province) are here settled, altogether with other two already known fragments of the same inscription, in their place (chapters 64-67) into the lex Flauia municipalis. The same legal chapters are entirely given by the copy of Malaca and the recently discovered copy of Irni. By a comparative study of the whole text distribution by tables, columns and lines in the different copies of this lex data we can see how each municipe used to arrange the same legal text according to own taste and material possibilities. The concentration of those conserved municipal copies into a limited country of the Baetica shows the local emulation and the pride of the municipes in order to become Roman citizens per honorem, few years after ius Latii was given to Spain by Vespasian