Derecho y arqueología en el siglo XIX: el primer estudio de las tablas de bronce de Malaca y Salpensa

Abstract

This paper addresses the first study carried out in relation to one of the most important discoveries in nineteenth-century Malaga, two bronze tables that contained part of the Flavial municipal laws of Malacca and Salpensa, respectively. The interest of its owner, Jorge Loring, to know the content of his texts will motivate the incorporation of scholars outside the field of antiquities, creating a close interdisciplinary relationship between subjects, apparently as distant at that time, such as law and archaeology. This episode will be prior to the study, of great success and international reach, carried out by the jurist and epigrapher Manuel Rodríguez de Berlanga, whose interdisciplinary training will lead him to many successes in the field of European archaeology. For this, we have the information kept in the Royal Academy of History, specifically, with the correspondence maintained between Ildefonso Marzo, corresponding in Malaga and said institution, to recompose the translation and comments carried out by Miguel Téllez, Malaga lawyer, as First interdisciplinary approach to both epigraphic documents.