LATINITY, ONOMASTICS AND LEGAL INTEGRATION IN CENTRAL LUSITANIA

ABOUT AN INSCRIPTION FROM TEIXOSO (CASTELO BRANCO, PORTUGAL): HEpOL 26069

Abstract

We propose a study about the social, legal and institutional reality reflected in an inscription from Teixoso (Covilhã, Castelo Branco). This inscription will allow us to approach the ways of adaptation of the native Lusitanian elites to the Roman institutional models extended thanks to the Flavian latinization, which would result in the formation of new municipal-type local elites in this central-north zone of the province of Lusitania. Thus, we will see from this testimony how from a legal and administrative point of view the ius Latii sanctioned and guaranteed the adaptation of the local elites to a new constitutional reality, while maintaining a broad respect for the preexisting tradition.