Ricerc@Sapienza

The term communalis is only attested in the Gromatici Veteres texts and in two Latin inscriptions, only referring to Etruria. It was used by land surveyors to refer to the lands of the Etruscan rural village, mostly forests and grass lands, which would have kept the original legal status, characterized by a common sharing, even after the Roman colonization, as they were not affected by centuriation because of their utility for the community. This usage of communalis offers new ground to reopen the discussion on the meaning of the Etruscan word muni-.

Il contributo affronta il problema del rapporto tra le classificazioni gromatiche della terra e le categorie giuridiche romane dell'ager publicus e dell'ager privatus, evidenziando, attraverso l’esame dei diversi statuti giuridici dell’ager compascuus, l’importanza di uno studio sistematico delle forme gromatiche del territorio ad oggi non disponibile e che, invece, si ritiene essere il punto di partenza indispensabile per ogni tentativo di comparazione.

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