D. ARCHEOLOGICAL REMAINS
§ 34 The survey of the possible sources of the Roman law may be concluded with a brief mention of the occasional utility of archeological finds.'Town planning, building remains, water conduits, coin hoards, almost anything that has persisted to our times, may in a particular instance be of value for the study of Roman law.
Quite frequently the legal scholar can utilize numismatic finds; for an illustrated lecture such as given by dark,2 for an exegesis of technical terms on coins by Lange,3 or for the explanation of imperial public policy, as instanced by Schulz and Vogt.[248] [249] [250] The remains of insulae (apartment buildings) or horrea (warehouses), or the interior arrangement of courthouses (basilica), even relics of Roman art, such as the wall-painting at Pompeii depicting the posting of public notices,1 or the scene on the sarcophagus at Corneto illustrating the formal act of manus iniectio (laying on of hand)? may be of value in the explanation of legal norms and institutions. This field of research has by no means been exhausted.
More on the topic D. ARCHEOLOGICAL REMAINS:
- CHAPTER XXIV. MANUMISSION UNDER JUSTINIAN1.
- THE EARLY EVIDENCE
- Error in motive and error in nomine
- Evaluation
- CHAPTER V The historical record
- Developments in contemporary pluralism
- Statism and institutionalism.· is there more focus on the state?
- Loose Coupling in Albania
- The unwritten archaeological record
- CONCLUSION
- The edicts of the magistrates
- Conclusion
- Loans to merchants involved in overseas trade