Un’iscrizione di Alba Fucens: organi municipali e rapporti con Roma nel I secolo d.C.

Abstract

Abstract - A precious epigraphic document, a latin inscription from Alba Fucens from the first half of the first century AD, which can be reconstructed in its content also thanks to the sixteenth-century transcription by the humanist Mariangelo Accursio, offers the opportunity to take a look at certain aspects relating to the administrative organization of the Italic municipia of the early imperial age. The epigraph provides interesting informations about the judicial structure of municipium and certifies the presence in Alba Fucens of a praefectus Caesaris, a key figure in defining the relationship between local communities and central power in the changed context following the bellum sociale; last issue worth noting is that relating to the mentioned public building intervention which fits well into the activity, typical of this period, aimed at adapting the city facilities to the new political needs arising from the urbanization process following the end of the social war.