Lost to human memory between the end of antiquity and the eighteenth century, Veleia then produced two documents of extraordinary importance, the late Republican Lex de Gallia Cisalpina and the Trajanic alimentary table. Excavations have since revealed the forum, the surrounding buildings and what appears to be a small amphitheatre or a water reservoir, though almost nothing of the domestic quarters. Very little has been adequately published. The site is in one of the most beautiful situations in the whole of Italy, flanked by a comfortable hotel, from many of whose bedrooms one has an excellent view of the forum, and with good food and wine to boot. C. here, after a brief introduction, assembles those inscriptions discovered after the publication of CIL and provides later bibliography for those included in CIL, as well as a general bibliography. The treatment is impeccable, even if sometimes a bit whimsical, with the introduction providing an account of what is known of the community and of the history of discoveries there. All the new inscriptions are funerary, except for one dedication to Diana. Not all the photographs have benefited from the digital enhancement that is now possible. C. knows the site better than anyone else, and has contributed more to its understanding than most: it is a pity that he has not also provided here an account of what difference the research of, say, the last generation has made to our understanding of the community and its documents.
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