Per un nuovo corpus dei decreta decurionum delle città romane d'Italia e delle province occidentali

The author sets out a work in progress : a new critical edition of the decreta decurionum in Italy and in the western provinces during the four centuries of the imperial era. A new collection of the evidence was needed : the previous work of Sherk (1970) is incomplete and out of date. The new corpus includes about a hundred of inscriptions (35 p. c. more than Sherk) : for every text an historical and juridical commentary is given, photographs and an index of Latin and Greek lemmas in context.These inscriptions are reliable pieces of first-hand evidence upon the administration of Roman cities. In some cases they inform us of proceedings and competences we did not know at all or only in a very general way.Parma Aniello. Per un nuovo corpus dei decreta decurionum delle città romane d'Italia e delle province occidentali. In: Cahiers du Centre Gustave Glotz, 14, 2003. pp. 167-171