This document is a bronze tessera recording two decrees of Augustus dealing with some consequences of the Cantabrian Wars. The document is important from a constitutional point of view (Augustus acts as provincial proconsul) and for “magic” inscriptions.
The Emperor Caesar Augustus, son of The Divine, in his ninth tribunitial power and proconsul, says: I knew from my legates which presided over the Transdurian province that the inhabitants of the Paemeiobrigensian hillfort, belonging to the people of the Susarri, had remained faithful, while the rest became dissidents. Therefore, I bestow them a permanent immunity and the possession of their land, with the same boundaries which they had when my legate Lucius Sextus Quirinalis governed this province. To the inhabitants of the Paemeiobrigan hillfort, of the people of the Susarri, and onto which I bestowed full immunity, I restore to their place the people of the Aliobrigiaecinan hillfort, of the people of the Gigurri, into the same civitas, and order that these from the Alobrigiaecino hillofrt fulfill all the obligations together the Susarrans. Said in Narbo Martius (Narbonne) the 16th and 15th days before the kalends of March, being consuls M. Drusus Libo and L. Calpurnius Piso. (EAGLEWIKIQ1811)
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