Strutture politiche minori nella provincia Tarraconense di età adrianea: il pagus nella Lex riui Hiberiensis

Until the discovery of the Lex rivi Hiberiensis knowledge about those little villages called pagi was quite restricted. Aim of the present paper is to demonstrate that the Lex rivi Hiberiensis Decree shows that the pagi (and their elected representatives) were small rural districts and that they had a small but significative autonomy with respect to municipia and coloniae. By taking into account also this aspect, we can say that for the historians of Roman law the discovery of the Lex rivi Hiberiensis has the same importance as that of the Lex Irnitana.