Tabula Bantina

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Tabula Bantina is an ancient bronze tablet bearing one of the most important surviving inscriptions in the Oscan language, recording laws of a Samnite community in southern Italy.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Oscan inscription
ancient bronze tablet
epigraphic monument
associatedWith Samnites
associatedWithPlace Bantia
chronology 2nd–1st century BCE
late Republican period
contains clauses on civic offices
clauses on legal penalties
clauses on public assemblies
clauses on voting procedures
culture Samnite culture
epigraphicCategory Italic law tablet
foundInRegion southern Italy
genre legal text
geographicalContext Apennine southern Italy
Lucania
inscriptionType bilingual: Oscan and Latin
legalForm statutory law
linguisticFeature South Oscan dialect
material bronze
medium bronze tablet
namedAfter Bantia
partiallyPreserved true
records laws of a Samnite community
relatedTo Roman municipal law
Samnite-Roman interactions
script Oscan alphabet
significance key source for Samnite public law
key source for the Oscan language
one of the most important surviving Oscan inscriptions
studiedInDiscipline ancient legal history
classical philology
epigraphy
historical linguistics
subjectMatter civic administration
judicial procedures
magistracies
municipal regulations
public law
usedFor regulation of a local community
writingSystemFamily Italic alphabets
writtenInLanguage Oscan language

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

this entity surface form: Tabulae Iguvinae
this entity surface form: Oscan Tabula Bantina
Bantia knownFor Tabula Bantina
Oscan alphabet notableInscription Tabula Bantina
Oscan language notableInscription Tabula Bantina
Cippus Abellanus relatedWork Tabula Bantina
Cippus Abellanus relatedWork Tabula Bantina
this entity surface form: Tabula Agnonensis