The unwritten archaeological record
Finally, an important source of information about the historical framework of Roman law is archaeological evidence - the evidence of buildings and structures surviving above ground or brought to light by archaeological excavations, together with the artifacts and other finds connected with them.
By comparing remains from different sites and from different periods of the same site archaeologists can reconstruct, by reference also to other sources of historical information, the social and cultural history of a region. Of special interest for the legal historian are coins, commemorative medallions and seals, illustrations and sculptures. Coins, in particular, often used for propaganda purposes in both the Republican and imperial epochs, can supply valuable information about the political and economic conditions that prevailed at the period of their issue.[40]
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- In this chapter I will look at those documents in the archives that have been qualified as marriage contracts: P.Yadin 10, P.Yadin 18 and P.Hever 65.[1009]