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epigraphy
irrigation
papyrology
Roman law
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Due to the needs of intensive agriculture, all ancient civilizations had to create and maintain irrigation systems. It was also in the interest of the Roman Empire to provide equivalent conditions for the cultivation of soil. The consistently discovered epigraphic and papyrological sources allow one to reconstruct the legal forms of action which were employed by the Romans in order to maintain the irrigation networks. It turns out that they are completely different. The following two are used as examples of administrative and legal means which were used in the provinces of Hispania Tarraconensis and Aegyptus. In the former, on the basis of the tablet containing Lex Rivi Hiberiensis, an image of local government structures emerges. And in the latter, thanks to papyruses, it is possible to recreate the hierarchical structures which were characteristic of the previous forms of statehood in the area. On the basis of the previous publications on the subject, administrative structures are described with particular emphasis on legal aspects.
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