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The Bierzo Edict, also referred to as the Edict of Augustus from El Bierzo and the Bembibre Bronze is a controversial document dated to 15 BC found in El Bierzo in Spain in 1999. The document is a bronze tablet measuring 24.15 cm x 15.6 cm. At the top it has a moulded 3 cm ring.
The inscription contains the combined publication of two by Augustus, one issued on 14 February and the other on 15 February.
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"The emperor Caesar Augustus, son of The Divine, in his ninth Tribune power and proconsul, says:
I knew from my Legatus which presided over the Transdurian province note, 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 it, with the same boundaries which they had when my legate Lucius Sextus Quirinalis governed this province historical.
To the inhabitants of the Paemeiobrigan hillfort again,, of the people of the Susarri, and onto which I bestowed full immunity, I restore to their place the people of the Aliobrigiaecinan hillfort castellum, of the people of the Gigurri, into the same civitas, and order that these from the Alobrigiaecino hillfort fulfill all the obligations together within the Susarrans.
Said in Narbonne the 16th and 15th days before the kalends of March, being consuls M. Drusus Libo and L. Calpurnius Piso."
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An international symposium was organised by the city museum of León, Spain in 2001 which discussed the inscription and various anomalies including the lead content of the bronze, various textual issues, the two dates and the title given to Augustus.coord. Luis A. Grau Lobo y J. L. Hoyas, The bronze Bembibre: an edict of the Emperor Augustus 15 BC: Museo de León Museo de León, Junta de Castilla y León, Consejería de Educación y Cultura, 2001.[1]
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