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“Code” of Gortyn, archaic inscription on slabs used to build a Roman odeum of the 1st century

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code of Gortyn

ancient Greece

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role in Greek legal tradition

In Greek law
The law code of Gortyn, which is itself the revised version of an older code, is the only one that comes close to being fully preserved.
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significance as artifact

In Gortyn
…civic inscription, or “code,” of Gortyn was discovered. The code is the most extensive monument of Greek law before the Hellenistic Age. Later excavations disclosed most of the plan and public buildings of the Roman city, which was the administrative capital of the Roman province of Crete and Cyrenaica.
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