{ "schema_version": "0.1.0", "title": "Lex metalli Vipascensis / Lex metallis dicta", "subtitle": "Source-backed working analytical edition for the Vipasca mining district", "built": "2026-07-09", "status": "working_analytical_edition", "certainty_policy": "No full restored Latin text is generated here. Clauses are admitted only when supported by the checked uploaded PDFs or by the existing Vipasca center record. Fragmentary or restoration-dependent passages are summarized and flagged.", "site": { "ancient_name": "metallum Vipascense", "modern_location": "Aljustrel, Beja district, Portugal", "province": "Lusitania", "coordinates": { "lat": 37.8768, "lon": -8.1707 }, "production": [ "silver", "copper", "lead" ] }, "scope": { "included": [ "Vipasca I: local district regulation on farmed dues, service monopolies, schoolmasters, and pit-right registration", "Vipasca II: fragment of the lex metallis dicta on acquisition, fiscal share, working continuity, partners, ore movement, theft, shaft safety, and drainage-adit setbacks", "Document audit for the uploaded PDFs plus additional local edition witnesses located on disk" ], "excluded": [ "A fresh autopsy of the bronze tablets", "A complete critical apparatus for every bracketed restoration", "Independent readings from Lazzarini 2001 or Magueijo 1970 OCR before manual collation against page images" ] }, "source_checks": [ { "id": "domergue1983", "file": "1983 domergue la mine antique d'aljustrel et les tables de bronze de vipasca.pdf", "pages": 116, "text_bytes": 683584, "status": "usable_text_and_visual_check", "role": "Principal checked edition and commentary. The rendered page with Vipasca I chapter 1 confirms the Latin/French two-column edition; the searchable text supplies the Domergue paragraph spine for Vipasca II." }, { "id": "thielmann1961", "file": "1961 thielmann die roemische privatauktion.pdf", "pages": 300, "text_bytes": 925601, "status": "usable_text_and_visual_check", "role": "Appendix prints a Latin/German text of both Vipasca tablets and anchors the auction-law reading of the centesima and praeconium clauses." }, { "id": "demelius1883_doc", "file": "1883 demelius zur erklaerung der lex metalli vipascensis.pdf", "pages": 17, "text_bytes": 45756, "status": "usable_text", "role": "Early legal commentary on the centesima and the conductor as farmer of a fiscally charged auction/vectigal regime." }, { "id": "demelius1883_icloud", "file": "1883 demelius zur erklaerung der lex metalli vipascensis.pdf", "pages": 17, "text_bytes": 45756, "status": "duplicate_text_checked", "role": "Duplicate copy of the Demelius text; checked as a control copy." }, { "id": "mrozek1999_doc", "file": "1999 mrozek l'argent dans les tables de vipasca.pdf", "pages": 10, "text_bytes": 29993, "status": "usable_text", "role": "Money-of-account analysis. Used for sestertii/denarii structure and the economic meaning of the HS 4000 silver-pit payment." }, { "id": "mrozek1999_icloud", "file": "1999 morzek L' argent dans les tables de Vipasca.pdf", "pages": 10, "text_bytes": 24134, "status": "usable_text_control", "role": "Second copy of the Mrozek article, checked against the Documents copy." }, { "id": "christol1999", "file": "1999 christol Un aspect de l'administration imperiale - le procurateur des mines de Vipasca.pdf", "pages": 13, "text_bytes": 45054, "status": "usable_text", "role": "Administrative hierarchy and freedman/district procurators, especially the distinction between Saturninus as procurator Asturiae et Callaeciae and procurator metallorum Vipascensium." }, { "id": "maricic2019", "file": "2019 maricic the status of the coloni in the mining district of vipasca in view of the provisions of the lex metallis dicta.pdf", "pages": 10, "text_bytes": 64091, "status": "usable_text", "role": "Recent interpretive article on coloni, the fiscus, work continuity, and the labor implications of the lex metallis dicta. Used as secondary interpretation, not as the base text." }, { "id": "lazzarini2001", "file": "2001 lazzarini lex metallis dicta.pdf", "pages": 228, "text_bytes": 422377, "pre_ocr_text_bytes": 228, "status": "ocr_generated_pending_manual_collation", "role": "Scanned monograph on the second tablet. OCRmyPDF/Tesseract sidecar text and a searchable PDF have been generated from the local scan, with representative pages visually checked. The OCR is a collation aid only; it is not used for independent Vipasca II readings until manual page-image collation is complete.", "ocr_artifacts": { "pdf": "/production-ecology/output/ocr/lazzarini_2001_lex_metallis_dicta.ocr.pdf", "sidecar_text": "/production-ecology/output/ocr/lazzarini_2001_lex_metallis_dicta.ocr.txt", "ocr_text_bytes": 422377, "engine": "OCRmyPDF 17.8.0 with Tesseract 5.5.2", "languages": "ita+lat", "command_profile": "deskew, rotate-pages, oversample 300, output-type pdf, optimize 1", "qc": "Representative pages with main text and dense footnotes render cleanly; low-text front matter, footers, and bibliography pages generated expected OCR warnings. Searchable PDF is about 532 MB." } }, { "id": "hubner1877_ephemeris", "file": "1877 Huebner, Ephemeris Epigraphica, Lex metalli Vipascensis et alia.pdf", "pages": null, "text_bytes": 1561206, "status": "usable_text_entry_located", "role": "Early publication of Lex metalli Vipascensis in Ephemeris Epigraphica, with the Vipasca entry located in the extracted text. Used for Vipasca I and edition history; it predates the 1906 discovery of the second tablet and is not a direct witness for Vipasca II." }, { "id": "bruns1909_fontes", "file": "1909 Bruns, Fontes iuris Romani antiqui I.pdf", "pages": null, "text_bytes": 1451105, "status": "usable_text_vipasca_entries_located", "role": "Printed legal-source collection with Lex metalli Vipascensis and its fragment located in the extracted text. Useful for edition history, headings, and apparatus control." }, { "id": "riccobono1909_fira", "file": "1909 Riccobono, Fontes iuris Romani anteiustiniani.pdf", "pages": null, "text_bytes": 2379580, "status": "usable_text_vipasca_entries_located", "role": "FIRA-family printed witness with Lex metallis dicta and Lex territorio metalli Vipascensis dicta entries located; also supplies general Roman legal background for metallum punishment, kept separate from local Vipasca attestation." }, { "id": "purpura2012_fira_studi_lazzarini", "file": "2012 Purpura, Revisione ed integrazione dei Fontes Iuris Romani Anteiustiniani: Studi preparatori I, Leges.pdf", "pages": null, "text_bytes": 884020, "status": "usable_text_lazzarini_vipasca_entry_located", "role": "Contains an extractable S. Lazzarini entry titled Seconda tavola di Vipasca. Used as a modern Lazzarini-adjacent control for Vipasca II while the 2001 monograph remains pending manual OCR/page-image collation." }, { "id": "purpura2012_fira_i", "file": "2012 Purpura, Revisione ed integrazione dei Fontes Iuris Romani Anteiustiniani: FIRA I.pdf", "pages": null, "text_bytes": 1709475, "status": "usable_text_index_entry_located", "role": "FIRA revision/preparatory context with the Seconda tavola di Vipasca entry visible in the contents. Used for source inventory and future FIRA alignment, not as an independent Vipasca reading until the full entry is collated." }, { "id": "magueijo1970", "file": "1970 Magueijo, Lex metallis dicta.pdf", "pages": 40, "text_bytes": 91642, "pre_ocr_text_bytes": 40, "status": "ocr_generated_pending_manual_collation", "role": "Local PDF OCR has been generated with Portuguese and Latin language models. A representative two-column text page renders cleanly, while a low-text/faint final sampled page should remain a QC warning. The OCR is a collation aid only; it is not used for independent readings until manual page-image collation is complete.", "ocr_artifacts": { "pdf": "/production-ecology/output/ocr/magueijo_1970_lex_metallis_dicta.ocr.pdf", "sidecar_text": "/production-ecology/output/ocr/magueijo_1970_lex_metallis_dicta.ocr.txt", "ocr_text_bytes": 91642, "engine": "OCRmyPDF 17.8.0 with Tesseract 5.5.2", "languages": "por+lat", "command_profile": "deskew, rotate-pages, oversample 300, output-type pdf, optimize 1", "qc": "Representative main-text page is visually clear and searchable; page 40 is very faint/low-text and produced a diacritic warning, so final-page OCR should not be trusted without image check." } }, { "id": "dors1953", "file": "not located as a directly collatable local PDF", "pages": null, "text_bytes": 0, "status": "not_directly_collated_indirectly_cited", "role": "D'Ors 1953 is reported by checked secondary sources as a base text for Vipasca readings, but the edition itself has not been directly collated here." }, { "id": "flach1979", "file": "not located as a directly collatable local PDF", "pages": null, "text_bytes": 0, "status": "not_directly_collated_indirectly_cited", "role": "Flach's modern Chiron study is cited by checked scholarship and must be collated for a full apparatus; current use is limited to indirect reporting and explicit pending status." } ], "edition_principles": [ "Use Domergue 1983 and Thielmann 1961 as the checked edition spine.", "Use Demelius 1883, Mrozek 1999, Christol 1999, and Maricic 2019 for interpretation only where their extracted text directly supports the claim.", "Treat Lazzarini 2001 and Magueijo 1970 OCR as collation aids only until manually checked against page images.", "Use the text-extractable 2012 Lazzarini FIRA-preparatory entry only as a modern control for Vipasca II; do not treat it as a substitute for direct collation of Lazzarini 2001.", "Treat Huebner as a Vipasca I and edition-history witness; treat Bruns, Riccobono/FIRA, CIL/ILS/AE references as located edition witnesses for the second-tablet apparatus until line-by-line collation is complete.", "Separate local Vipasca evidence for status-differentiated penalties from general Roman legal background on damnatio ad metalla.", "Keep Latin in short lemmata rather than publish a full restored text from secondary editions.", "Expose every uncertainty as a source-status or open-question field." ], "expert_panel": { "status": "role_based_not_personnel_claim", "purpose": "Govern the move from this working analytical edition to a comprehensive edition with diplomatic text, normalized text, translation, apparatus criticus, and historical commentary.", "rule": "No role may add a reading, restoration, interpretation, date, office, penalty, or institutional claim unless it is tied to a named witness or explicitly marked as conjectural.", "roles": [ { "id": "material_epigrapher", "title": "Material Epigrapher", "core_question": "What can the bronze surface, lineation, letter forms, breaks, and restorations actually bear?", "must_check": [ "Bronze tablet photographs, squeezes, or museum images if available", "Domergue 1983 plate/text pages", "CIL/ILS/FIRA line numbering against the physical layout" ], "deliverables": [ "Diplomatic transcription with line numbers", "Uncertain-letter and lacuna register", "Restoration confidence tags for every bracketed supplement" ], "veto": "May block any Latin reading not visible on a checked witness or not attributed to a published editor." }, { "id": "latin_text_critic", "title": "Latin Text Critic", "core_question": "Which Latin text should stand in the edited line, and which alternatives belong in the apparatus?", "must_check": [ "Domergue 1983", "Thielmann 1961 appendix", "Demelius 1883", "FIRA, CIL II 5181, ILS 6891, AE 1906 150", "Lazzarini 2001 after manual collation of the OCR and page images" ], "deliverables": [ "Normalized Latin text", "Sigla list for witnesses and editions", "Apparatus criticus keyed by tablet, section, and line" ], "veto": "May block any normalized text that silently merges incompatible restorations." }, { "id": "roman_jurist", "title": "Roman Jurist", "core_question": "How do the clauses work as Roman legal instruments rather than loose institutional labels?", "must_check": [ "Centesima, scriptura, praeconium, pignoris capio, duplum", "locatio conductio, conductor/socius/actor", "occupatio, usurpatio, venditio puteorum, pars occupatoris" ], "deliverables": [ "Legal commentary by clause", "List of terms requiring non-literal translation", "Distinction between tax, monopoly, concession, fine, and penalty" ], "veto": "May block interpretations that collapse private auction law, fiscal farming, and mining concession law into one undifferentiated category." }, { "id": "mining_archaeologist", "title": "Mining Archaeologist and Geoarchaeologist", "core_question": "Do the technical clauses fit the Aljustrel workings, ore bodies, shafts, supports, and drainage adit?", "must_check": [ "Domergue 1983 site commentary", "Aljustrel/Vipasca coordinates and OXREP mine record", "Terms for puteus, cuniculus, ternagus, vena, scauriae, lapicaedinae" ], "deliverables": [ "Technical commentary for shafts, drainage, ore movement, and safety rules", "Topographic glossary", "Claim audit for the nouum metallum and Transtagana adit interpretation" ], "veto": "May block technical commentary that treats legal terms as mining realities without site control." }, { "id": "fiscal_economic_historian", "title": "Fiscal and Economic Historian", "core_question": "What revenue system is attested, and what should remain only an economic inference?", "must_check": [ "Mrozek 1999 money-of-account analysis", "HS and denarius amounts in Vipasca I and II", "Fiscus half-share, pittaciarium, conductores, auction dues, bath/craft monopolies" ], "deliverables": [ "Fiscal apparatus commentary", "Money-of-account table", "Inference register separating attested payments from economic interpretation" ], "veto": "May block revenue or scale claims not grounded in a clause, amount, or cited comparandum." }, { "id": "administrative_prosopographer", "title": "Administrative Epigrapher and Prosopographer", "core_question": "Who are the officials, and what level of administration do their titles actually prove?", "must_check": [ "Christol 1999", "Ulpius Aelianus in Vipasca II", "Saturninus, Beryllus, and procurator metallorum Vipascensium attestations" ], "deliverables": [ "Prosopography note for named officials", "Administrative hierarchy commentary", "Warning register for provincial vs district procuratorship" ], "veto": "May block office-hierarchy claims that exceed the epigraphic formulation." }, { "id": "labor_social_historian", "title": "Labor and Social Historian", "core_question": "What labor statuses and social protections are locally attested, and what belongs to wider Roman legal background?", "must_check": [ "Maricic 2019", "Coloni, slaves, freedmen, wage labor, schoolmasters, soldiers, imperial staff", "Ore theft, night transport, flogging, sale conditions, exclusion from mines" ], "deliverables": [ "Labor-status commentary", "Caution note for damnati ad metalla", "Social topography note for baths, schools, craft monopolies, and vicus life" ], "veto": "May block claims that present general Roman penal mining as a local Vipasca attestation without local evidence." }, { "id": "apparatus_editor", "title": "Apparatus Criticus Editor", "core_question": "Can a reader see every material variant, restoration, conjecture, and translation decision without noise?", "must_check": [ "Every bracketed supplement", "Every divergence among Domergue, Thielmann, Demelius, FIRA/CIL/ILS/AE, and Lazzarini once collated", "Every place where translation depends on a disputed legal or technical term" ], "deliverables": [ "Apparatus sigla and abbreviations", "Variant table with confidence levels", "Rejected-reading notes where a tempting restoration is not adopted" ], "veto": "May block publication if the edited text and apparatus cannot be reconciled line by line." }, { "id": "commentary_editor", "title": "Commentary and Red-Team Editor", "core_question": "Does the commentary explain the law, site, economy, and administration without overclaiming?", "must_check": [ "All clause summaries against apparatus entries", "Every institutional synthesis paragraph", "All claims marked inferred, disputed, or attested" ], "deliverables": [ "Clause-by-clause commentary", "Cross-reference map to Production Ecology scoring", "Hallucination and fabrication audit before release" ], "veto": "May block any commentary section that cites no witness or hides uncertainty." }, { "id": "data_bibliography_curator", "title": "Data and Bibliography Curator", "core_question": "Can every source, witness, file, and claim be resolved after the build is published?", "must_check": [ "Uploaded PDF paths and checksums", "Text extraction and render logs", "Bibliographic keys, URLs, permanent identifiers, and local source status" ], "deliverables": [ "Manifest updates", "Source inventory with extraction status", "TODO queue for OCR, web verification, and future collation" ], "veto": "May block release if a cited witness cannot be located or its status is misreported." } ], "apparatus_protocol": { "sigla_policy": "Assign one siglum per physical witness, major printed edition, and checked derivative text. Do not cite OCR text as an independent witness.", "entry_fields": [ "tablet", "section", "line", "base_reading", "variant_or_supplement", "witnesses_for", "witnesses_against", "problem_type", "confidence", "editorial_note" ], "problem_types": [ "visible_letter", "lacuna", "abbreviation", "word_division", "restoration", "punctuation", "legal_sense", "technical_sense", "translation" ], "confidence_values": [ "visible", "secure_restoration", "probable_restoration", "possible_restoration", "conjectural", "rejected" ] }, "commentary_protocol": { "levels": [ "Textual: letters, restorations, lineation, and witness disagreement", "Linguistic: Latin syntax, abbreviation, vocabulary, and translation", "Legal: transaction form, coercive power, penalty, procedure, and office competence", "Technical: mining operation, site topography, ore processing, and safety", "Fiscal-economic: payment, money of account, revenue flow, and concession incentive", "Social-administrative: coloni, conductores, slaves, free persons, procurators, vicus institutions", "Comparative: relation to Laurion, African estates, Alburnus Maior, and the Production Ecology enclave model" ], "claim_labels": [ "attested", "restored", "inferred", "disputed", "background_only", "unverified" ] }, "workflow": [ { "stage": "1. Witness inventory", "output": "All primary witnesses, editions, photographs, PDFs, and extracted texts listed with status and access path.", "exit_criteria": "No source is cited unless it has a status: checked, duplicate, OCR-only, visual-only, unavailable, or pending." }, { "stage": "2. Diplomatic transcription", "output": "Line-by-line diplomatic text for Vipasca I and II with lacunae and uncertain letters.", "exit_criteria": "Material Epigrapher signs off that every letter is visible or attributed to a published restoration." }, { "stage": "3. Collation and normalized text", "output": "Edited Latin text with sigla, variants, rejected readings, and translation-impact notes.", "exit_criteria": "Latin Text Critic and Apparatus Editor reconcile text and apparatus line by line." }, { "stage": "4. Translation", "output": "Literal translation plus interpretive translation notes where legal or technical terms resist one-to-one rendering.", "exit_criteria": "Roman Jurist, Mining Archaeologist, and Commentary Editor approve all translated terms that drive interpretation." }, { "stage": "5. Clause commentary", "output": "Commentary notes for each clause in textual, legal, technical, economic, and social-administrative layers.", "exit_criteria": "Every paragraph carries a claim label and at least one source anchor." }, { "stage": "6. Institutional synthesis", "output": "Short synthesis explaining why the tablets support the bounded fiscal-legal production enclave model.", "exit_criteria": "Synthesis is downstream of the apparatus and commentary, not a premise used to choose readings." }, { "stage": "7. Release audit", "output": "Public edition, machine-readable JSON/TEI, bibliography, and unresolved-questions log.", "exit_criteria": "Data Curator and Commentary/Red-Team Editor sign off that no unverified claim is presented as fact." } ] }, "witness_register": [ { "siglum": "D", "id": "domergue1983", "kind": "printed_edition_commentary", "status": "checked_text_and_rendered_page", "coverage": "Vipasca I and II, Latin/French edition plus site and legal commentary", "use": "Base checked edition spine for the current build." }, { "siglum": "T", "id": "thielmann1961", "kind": "printed_edition_appendix", "status": "checked_text_and_rendered_page", "coverage": "Latin/German appendix for both tablets, strongest for auction-law clauses", "use": "Control witness for clause divisions and legal translation of auction material." }, { "siglum": "De", "id": "demelius1883_doc", "kind": "legal_commentary", "status": "checked_text_duplicate_control_available", "coverage": "Vipasca I centesima, conductor, vectigal, auction-tax interpretation", "use": "Interpretive witness, not a base text witness." }, { "siglum": "Mr", "id": "mrozek1999_doc", "kind": "economic_commentary", "status": "checked_text_control_copy_available", "coverage": "Money in the tablets, HS and denarius usage, dating implications", "use": "Economic and chronology commentary witness." }, { "siglum": "Ch", "id": "christol1999", "kind": "administrative_commentary", "status": "checked_text", "coverage": "Procurator metallorum Vipascensium and Iberian mining administration", "use": "Administrative/prosopographic commentary witness." }, { "siglum": "Ma", "id": "maricic2019", "kind": "labor_social_commentary", "status": "checked_text", "coverage": "Coloni, fiscus, work continuity, labor interpretation of lex metallis dicta", "use": "Recent secondary interpretation, not base text." }, { "siglum": "Lz", "id": "lazzarini2001", "kind": "printed_monograph", "status": "ocr_generated_pending_manual_collation", "coverage": "Second tablet study; OCR sidecar and searchable PDF generated from the local scan", "use": "Collation aid only; no independent claim until relevant pages are checked against the page images." }, { "siglum": "Lz12", "id": "purpura2012_fira_studi_lazzarini", "kind": "modern_fira_preparatory_entry", "status": "checked_text_entry_located", "coverage": "S. Lazzarini, Seconda tavola di Vipasca, in the 2012 FIRA preparatory volume", "use": "Modern control for Vipasca II pending OCR/manual collation of Lazzarini 2001." }, { "siglum": "H", "id": "hubner1877_ephemeris", "kind": "early_printed_edition", "status": "checked_text_entry_located", "coverage": "Ephemeris Epigraphica publication of Lex metalli Vipascensis before the second-tablet discovery", "use": "Early printed witness for Vipasca I and edition-history alignment; not a direct witness for Vipasca II sections." }, { "siglum": "B", "id": "bruns1909_fontes", "kind": "printed_legal_source_collection", "status": "checked_text_vipasca_entries_located", "coverage": "Lex metalli Vipascensis and related fragment in Bruns Fontes", "use": "Edition-history and apparatus-control witness for headings, restorations, and notes." }, { "siglum": "R", "id": "riccobono1909_fira", "kind": "printed_fira_family_collection", "status": "checked_text_vipasca_entries_located", "coverage": "Lex metallis dicta and Lex territorio metalli Vipascensis dicta entries", "use": "FIRA-family control witness; also used only as background for general metallum punishment rules." }, { "siglum": "F12", "id": "purpura2012_fira_i", "kind": "fira_revision_context", "status": "checked_text_index_entry_located", "coverage": "FIRA revision/preparatory context, including Seconda tavola di Vipasca in the contents", "use": "Source inventory and future alignment; not yet a separate reading witness." }, { "siglum": "Mg", "id": "magueijo1970", "kind": "printed_article", "status": "ocr_generated_pending_manual_collation", "coverage": "Portuguese article on Lex metallis dicta", "use": "Collation aid only; no independent claim until the OCR is checked against the page images." }, { "siglum": "Do", "id": "dors1953", "kind": "printed_edition_commentary", "status": "not_directly_collated", "coverage": "D'Ors, Epigrafia juridica de la Espana Romana, reported by checked sources for Vipasca text", "use": "Indirect source lead only; not a direct witness in the current apparatus." }, { "siglum": "Fl", "id": "flach1979", "kind": "modern_edition_commentary", "status": "not_directly_collated", "coverage": "Flach, Die Bergwerksordnung von Vipasca, cited by checked scholarship", "use": "Indirect source lead only until the article is directly checked." }, { "siglum": "C", "id": "production_ecology_vipasca_record", "kind": "curated_dataset_record", "status": "checked_local_json", "coverage": "Existing Vipasca production-center evidence and scoring", "use": "Institutional synthesis control, not a text witness." } ], "collation_status": [ { "target": "Domergue 1983", "sigla": [ "D" ], "status": "checked_working_spine", "current_use": "Primary checked edition and commentary spine for clause summaries.", "remaining_work": "Line-by-line apparatus must still record every restoration and variant." }, { "target": "Thielmann 1961", "sigla": [ "T" ], "status": "checked_control_spine", "current_use": "Control text and legal translation support, especially auction-law material.", "remaining_work": "Align line numbering and variants with Domergue, Bruns, and Riccobono/FIRA; use Huebner only for Vipasca I and edition-history control." }, { "target": "Huebner 1877 / Bruns 1909 / Riccobono-FIRA 1909", "sigla": [ "H", "B", "R" ], "status": "entries_located_not_fully_collated", "current_use": "Edition-history and witness-control layer. Huebner controls Vipasca I/early edition history; Bruns and Riccobono include the Vipasca II fragment.", "remaining_work": "Collate headings, lineation, restorations, and notes against D/T before upgrading to a full apparatus; do not use Huebner as a Vipasca II witness." }, { "target": "Lazzarini 2001", "sigla": [ "Lz" ], "status": "ocr_generated_pending_manual_collation", "current_use": "OCR sidecar and searchable PDF generated; no independent readings used.", "remaining_work": "Manually collate the relevant Vipasca II pages against the page images before citing it as an independent witness." }, { "target": "S. Lazzarini 2012 FIRA preparatory entry", "sigla": [ "Lz12" ], "status": "entry_located_text_extractable", "current_use": "Modern control for the second tablet while Lazzarini 2001 remains pending manual OCR/page-image collation.", "remaining_work": "Collate the entry itself line by line before it can carry apparatus readings." }, { "target": "Magueijo 1970", "sigla": [ "Mg" ], "status": "ocr_generated_pending_manual_collation", "current_use": "OCR sidecar and searchable PDF generated; not used for readings or commentary claims.", "remaining_work": "Manually collate the relevant readings against the page images before using it as a witness." }, { "target": "D'Ors 1953 and Flach 1979", "sigla": [ "Do", "Fl" ], "status": "not_directly_collated", "current_use": "Only cited as indirect source leads where checked scholarship reports them.", "remaining_work": "Locate full text or images and collate directly before treating either as a witness." }, { "target": "General Roman damnatio ad metalla evidence", "sigla": [ "R" ], "status": "background_only", "current_use": "Riccobono/FIRA legal passages show general Roman metallum punishment; they do not attest damnati at Vipasca.", "remaining_work": "Keep background law outside local Vipasca claims unless a local source is found." } ], "collation_workbench": { "status": "active_queue_ocr_guided_not_collated", "rule": "These records are navigation and QA tasks for manual collation. OCR hits identify where to look; they are not independent readings and cannot be promoted until checked against the page image and the named witnesses.", "sidecar_page_policy": "Page blocks are OCR sidecar/PDF page numbers generated from the searchable OCR PDFs. They may differ from printed page numbers and must be verified visually.", "rendered_spot_checks": [ { "siglum": "Lz", "pdf_page": 29, "print_page": "27", "covers": [ "Vipasca II address", "Vipasca II sections 1-3", "Hadrianic silver-pit rule" ], "visual_status": "legible", "note": "Edition text and apparatus notes are readable; use as a high-priority control for the opening, Hadrianic clause, and early apparatus variants." }, { "siglum": "Lz", "pdf_page": 31, "print_page": "29", "covers": [ "Vipasca II sections 4-6", "six-month inactivity", "partner-expense procedure" ], "visual_status": "legible", "note": "Edition text and apparatus notes are readable; OCR confuses some bracketed letters, so variants must be read from the image." }, { "siglum": "Lz", "pdf_page": 33, "print_page": "31", "covers": [ "Vipasca II sections 7-10", "daylight ore movement", "ore theft sanctions" ], "visual_status": "legible", "note": "Edition text and apparatus notes are readable; line-level variants are visible and suitable for manual transcription." }, { "siglum": "Lz", "pdf_page": 35, "print_page": "33", "covers": [ "Vipasca II sections 11-15", "shaft supports", "new orebody and adit rule" ], "visual_status": "legible", "note": "Edition text and apparatus notes are readable; useful for technical-sense checks around cuniculus and ternagus." }, { "siglum": "Lz", "pdf_page": 37, "print_page": "35", "covers": [ "Vipasca II sections 16-18", "adit setback", "silver-pit boundary rule" ], "visual_status": "legible", "note": "Edition text and apparatus notes are readable; use for the section 18 limits and adsignatio/occupatio wording." }, { "siglum": "Mg", "pdf_page": 9, "print_page": "133", "covers": [ "Vipasca II sections 2-5" ], "visual_status": "legible", "note": "Portuguese translation and Latin text are readable in parallel columns." }, { "siglum": "Mg", "pdf_page": 10, "print_page": "134", "covers": [ "Vipasca II sections 6-8" ], "visual_status": "legible", "note": "Portuguese translation and Latin text are readable in parallel columns; OCR should be checked because the page has light bleed-through." }, { "siglum": "Mg", "pdf_page": 11, "print_page": "135", "covers": [ "Vipasca II sections 9-11" ], "visual_status": "legible_with_minor_noise", "note": "Daylight movement and theft clauses are readable, with minor page-image noise." }, { "siglum": "Mg", "pdf_page": 12, "print_page": "136", "covers": [ "Vipasca II sections 12-15" ], "visual_status": "legible", "note": "Technical clauses and Portuguese translation are readable." }, { "siglum": "Mg", "pdf_page": 13, "print_page": "137", "covers": [ "Vipasca II sections 16-18" ], "visual_status": "legible", "note": "Silver-pit/adit setback and terminal limits clause are readable." } ], "queue": [ { "id": "cw_vipii_address_1_3", "priority": 1, "result_id": "cr_vipii_address_1_3", "result_status": "partial_result_added_2026-07-09", "tablet": "Vipasca II", "sections": [ "address", "1", "2", "3" ], "lemma_focus": [ "Ulpio Aeliano suo salutem", "Putei argentari", "Hadriani", "sestertia quattuor milia" ], "why": "Controls the opening address, sender caution, Hadrianic silver-pit liberalitas, HS 4000 payment, and the chronology note.", "ocr_hits": [ { "siglum": "Lz", "page_blocks": [ 29 ], "visual_status": "spot_checked_legible", "sidecar_text": "/production-ecology/output/ocr/lazzarini_2001_lex_metallis_dicta.ocr.txt" }, { "siglum": "Mg", "page_blocks": [ 9 ], "visual_status": "spot_checked_legible", "sidecar_text": "/production-ecology/output/ocr/magueijo_1970_lex_metallis_dicta.ocr.txt" } ], "must_collate_against": [ "D", "T", "B", "R", "Lz12" ], "output": "Line-by-line apparatus entries for the address and sections 1-3, with Lazzarini and Magueijo readings explicitly marked checked or rejected.", "claim_policy": "Do not identify the sender or alter the Hadrianic payment interpretation from OCR alone." }, { "id": "cw_vipii_4_6_inactivity_partners", "priority": 1, "tablet": "Vipasca II", "sections": [ "4", "5", "6" ], "lemma_focus": [ "continuis sex mensibus", "Occupatori puteorum socios", "impensas conferat", "socii sociorumue" ], "why": "Controls the transition from initial work obligations to fisc-sold pit inactivity and partner-expense procedure.", "ocr_hits": [ { "siglum": "Lz", "page_blocks": [ 31 ], "visual_status": "spot_checked_legible", "sidecar_text": "/production-ecology/output/ocr/lazzarini_2001_lex_metallis_dicta.ocr.txt" }, { "siglum": "Mg", "page_blocks": [ 9, 10 ], "visual_status": "spot_checked_legible", "sidecar_text": "/production-ecology/output/ocr/magueijo_1970_lex_metallis_dicta.ocr.txt" } ], "must_collate_against": [ "D", "T", "B", "R", "Lz12" ], "output": "Variant table for section 5 inactivity and section 6 partner-cost procedure, including bracketed opening and socius wording.", "claim_policy": "Keep partnership-law commentary separate from textual adoption until every bracketed supplement is checked." }, { "id": "cw_vipii_7_10_transfer_daylight_theft", "priority": 1, "tablet": "Vipasca II", "sections": [ "7", "8", "9", "10" ], "lemma_focus": [ "repetendi a sociis", "partes puteorum", "ab ortu solis in occasum", "Venae furem" ], "why": "Controls repayment rights, share transfer, ore-movement timing, and status-differentiated sanctions.", "ocr_hits": [ { "siglum": "Lz", "page_blocks": [ 33 ], "visual_status": "spot_checked_legible", "sidecar_text": "/production-ecology/output/ocr/lazzarini_2001_lex_metallis_dicta.ocr.txt" }, { "siglum": "Mg", "page_blocks": [ 10, 11 ], "visual_status": "spot_checked_legible_with_minor_noise", "sidecar_text": "/production-ecology/output/ocr/magueijo_1970_lex_metallis_dicta.ocr.txt" } ], "must_collate_against": [ "D", "T", "B", "R", "Lz12", "Ma" ], "output": "Collated apparatus and commentary flags for daylight movement, HS fine, slave/free sanctions, and local-vs-background labor claims.", "claim_policy": "Do not convert local sanctions into a local damnati ad metalla claim unless a local witness says so." }, { "id": "cw_vipii_11_15_supports_cuniculus", "priority": 2, "tablet": "Vipasca II", "sections": [ "11", "12", "13", "14", "15" ], "lemma_focus": [ "Putei omnes diligenter", "cuniculum", "explorandi noui metalli causa", "ternagus" ], "why": "Controls the technical safety and adit-protection clauses that drive the mining-archaeological commentary.", "ocr_hits": [ { "siglum": "Lz", "page_blocks": [ 35 ], "visual_status": "spot_checked_legible", "sidecar_text": "/production-ecology/output/ocr/lazzarini_2001_lex_metallis_dicta.ocr.txt" }, { "siglum": "Mg", "page_blocks": [ 11, 12 ], "visual_status": "spot_checked_legible", "sidecar_text": "/production-ecology/output/ocr/magueijo_1970_lex_metallis_dicta.ocr.txt" } ], "must_collate_against": [ "D", "T", "B", "R", "Lz12" ], "output": "Technical apparatus entries for supports, protected adit, ternagus dimensions, and the nouum metallum interpretation.", "claim_policy": "Keep Domergue's nouum metallum interpretation marked inferred until Lazzarini/Magueijo and archaeological controls are reconciled." }, { "id": "cw_vipii_16_18_setback_limits", "priority": 2, "tablet": "Vipasca II", "sections": [ "16", "17", "18" ], "lemma_focus": [ "quinos denos pedes", "puteos argentarios", "sexagenos pedes", "occupauerit adsignatosue" ], "why": "Controls copper/silver adit setbacks, boundary language, and the assigned/occupied pit distinction.", "ocr_hits": [ { "siglum": "Lz", "page_blocks": [ 37 ], "visual_status": "spot_checked_legible", "sidecar_text": "/production-ecology/output/ocr/lazzarini_2001_lex_metallis_dicta.ocr.txt" }, { "siglum": "Mg", "page_blocks": [ 13 ], "visual_status": "spot_checked_legible", "sidecar_text": "/production-ecology/output/ocr/magueijo_1970_lex_metallis_dicta.ocr.txt" } ], "must_collate_against": [ "D", "T", "B", "R", "Lz12" ], "output": "Boundary and setback apparatus entries, with particular attention to adsignatio, occupatio, egbolae/ecbolae, and fines putei wording.", "claim_policy": "Do not generalize the technical rule beyond the checked copper/silver adit wording." }, { "id": "cw_chronology_liberalitas_note", "priority": 2, "tablet": "Vipasca I-II", "sections": [ "date note", "Vipasca II section 2" ], "lemma_focus": [ "Hadriani", "denarius evidence", "sestertius evidence", "Vipasca I date" ], "why": "Controls the unresolved relation between Vipasca I chronology, Mrozek's money-of-account analysis, and the Hadrianic core of Vipasca II.", "ocr_hits": [ { "siglum": "Lz", "page_blocks": [ 89, 92, 111, 112, 113, 139, 140 ], "visual_status": "ocr_hit_unrendered_in_this_pass", "sidecar_text": "/production-ecology/output/ocr/lazzarini_2001_lex_metallis_dicta.ocr.txt" }, { "siglum": "Mg", "page_blocks": [ 19, 35 ], "visual_status": "ocr_hit_unrendered_in_this_pass", "sidecar_text": "/production-ecology/output/ocr/magueijo_1970_lex_metallis_dicta.ocr.txt" } ], "must_collate_against": [ "D", "T", "Mr", "B", "R", "Lz12" ], "output": "Chronology note separating Hadrianic Vipasca II evidence from debated Vipasca I dating.", "claim_policy": "No single date for Vipasca I may be stated until palaeography, currency terminology, and edition history are collated together." } ] }, "collation_results": [ { "id": "cr_vipii_address_1_3", "workbench_item": "cw_vipii_address_1_3", "status": "partial_direct_collation_no_text_promotion", "built": "2026-07-09", "scope": "Vipasca II address and sections 1-3", "integrity_rule": "This result records checked loci and apparatus cues only. OCR hits guide collation and may be used only where page images were visually checked; no full restored Latin text is promoted from OCR alone.", "page_image_controls": [ { "siglum": "Lz", "pdf_page": 29, "print_page": "27", "status": "page_image_checked", "use": "Controls the opening address, sections 1-3, and visible apparatus cues in Lazzarini 2001." }, { "siglum": "Mg", "pdf_page": 9, "print_page": "133", "status": "page_image_checked", "use": "Controls sections 2-3 and Portuguese/Latin presentation in Magueijo 1970; not used for the fragmentary address in this pass." } ], "witnesses_checked": [ { "siglum": "D", "status": "direct_text_checked", "evidence": "Domergue extracted text around lines 4084-4099, with related discussion around lines 4433-4436 and 4647-4650.", "use": "Confirms the address tail and the sections 1-3 spine; extracted text remains a navigation aid for page-image checking." }, { "siglum": "T", "status": "direct_text_checked", "evidence": "Thielmann extracted text around lines 11803-11841 and commentary around lines 2548-2553.", "use": "Controls the address, the silver-pit clause, and the caution that the sender should not be identified from the fragment alone." }, { "siglum": "B", "status": "direct_text_checked", "evidence": "Bruns extracted text around lines 19513-19556.", "use": "Direct control for the second-tablet fragment, including the Hadrianic supplement and early section 3 wording." }, { "siglum": "R", "status": "direct_text_checked", "evidence": "Riccobono extracted text around lines 22689-22732.", "use": "Direct FIRA-era control for the second-tablet fragment, including date note, address context, and sections 1-3." }, { "siglum": "Lz", "status": "ocr_page_image_checked_for_this_unit", "evidence": "Searchable OCR PDF page 29 / print page 27; edition text and apparatus notes visually readable.", "use": "Apparatus cue source for this unit; OCR text remains subordinate to the inspected page image." }, { "siglum": "Mg", "status": "ocr_page_image_checked_for_sections_2_3", "evidence": "Searchable OCR PDF page 9 / print page 133; Latin and Portuguese columns visually readable.", "use": "Controls sections 2-3 and the interpretive dispute over pretium facere; not used as an address witness here." } ], "witnesses_not_used": [ { "siglum": "H", "status": "not_applicable_to_vipasca_ii_fragment", "reason": "Huebner 1877 predates the 1906 discovery of Vipasca II; it remains relevant to Vipasca I and edition history, not to the address or sections 1-3 of Vipasca II." }, { "siglum": "Lz12", "status": "entry_located_pending_line_collation", "reason": "The extract locates the 2012 Seconda tavola di Vipasca entry, but this pass did not obtain a clean line-level collation for Vipasca II sections 1-3." }, { "siglum": "Do/Fl", "status": "indirect_leads_not_directly_collated", "reason": "No directly collatable local D'Ors or Flach copy was found in this pass." } ], "collated_units": [ { "unit": "address", "base_lemma": "Ulpio Aeliano suo salutem", "result_status": "address_tail_confirmed_sender_not_identified", "witnesses_for": [ "D", "T", "B", "R", "Lz" ], "witnesses_pending": [ "Do", "Fl", "Lz12" ], "apparatus_cues": [ "Administrative context identifies Aelianus as the addressed procurator, but the current text does not identify the sender.", "The beginning of the address remains fragmentary." ], "claim_policy": "Keep the sender anonymous unless a direct witness supports a supplement." }, { "unit": "section_1_payment_before_smelting", "base_lemma": "Aug. praesens numerato", "result_status": "spine_confirmed_with_fragmentary_opening", "witnesses_for": [ "D", "T", "B", "R", "Lz" ], "witnesses_pending": [ "Mg", "Lz12", "Do", "Fl" ], "apparatus_cues": [ "The payment-before-processing rule remains tied to the fragmentary opening.", "This unit should not decide the date of Vipasca I by itself." ], "claim_policy": "Keep chronology claims in the chronology note until palaeography, currency terminology, and edition history are collated together." }, { "unit": "section_2_silver_pits", "base_lemma": "Putei argentari ... Hadriani Aug. ... sestertia quattuor milia", "result_status": "hadrianic_liberalitas_and_hs_4000_rule_confirmed_as_unit", "witnesses_for": [ "D", "T", "B", "R", "Lz", "Mg" ], "variant_register": [ { "lemma": "argentari", "reported_variants": [ "argentarii" ], "source": "Lazzarini 2001 page-image apparatus cue; direct older-edition check still pending." }, { "lemma": "Hadriani Aug.", "reported_variants": [ "Hadr. Aug.", "Hadriani" ], "source": "B/R/Lz cues; normalize only after full witness collation." }, { "lemma": "sestertia quattuor milia", "reported_variants": [ "sestercia", "quatuor milia" ], "source": "B/R/Lz/Mg cues; normalize only after full witness collation." }, { "lemma": "intulerit", "reported_variants": [ "intulebit" ], "source": "Lazzarini apparatus cue reports older-edition variation." } ], "interpretive_boundary": "Magueijo and Lazzarini treat pretium facere / inferre as a disputed interpretive problem; this build records the dispute without choosing between 'make valuable' and 'pay price'." }, { "unit": "section_3_five_pits", "base_lemma": "Qui ex numero puteorum quinque unum", "result_status": "section_opening_confirmed_with_ius_occupandi_variation_pending", "witnesses_for": [ "D", "T", "B", "R", "Lz", "Mg" ], "variant_register": [ { "lemma": "alii / alius", "reported_variants": [ "bracketed supplement reported in apparatus cues" ], "source": "Lazzarini page-image cue; needs direct check in older editions." }, { "lemma": "occupandi ius esto", "reported_variants": [ "occupandi [ius] esto" ], "source": "B/R/Lz cues." } ], "claim_policy": "Do not flatten the rule into generalized ownership; keep it as a regulated priority/occupation rule until the legal commentary pass." } ], "next_queue": [ "cw_vipii_4_6_inactivity_partners", "cw_vipii_7_10_transfer_daylight_theft", "cw_chronology_liberalitas_note" ] } ], "apparatus_seed": [ { "tablet": "Vipasca I", "section": "1", "line": "title and opening lines", "base_reading": "Centesimae argentariae stipulationis", "variant_or_supplement": "The wording is treated as the clause title/heading for the centesima due on argentaria stipulatio connected with auction sales.", "witnesses_for": [ "D", "T" ], "witnesses_against": [], "problem_type": "legal_sense", "confidence": "visible", "editorial_note": "Demelius is used for the legal sense of the conductor and centesima; he is not treated as an independent physical witness." }, { "tablet": "Vipasca I", "section": "1", "line": "pit-sale sentence", "base_reading": "ex pretio puteorum", "variant_or_supplement": "The clause extends the centesima apparatus to prices of pits sold by the procurator metallorum.", "witnesses_for": [ "D", "T", "De" ], "witnesses_against": [], "problem_type": "legal_sense", "confidence": "probable_restoration", "editorial_note": "Needs line-by-line comparison with FIRA/CIL/ILS before final text; current reading is a controlled apparatus seed." }, { "tablet": "Vipasca I", "section": "9", "line": "reference to lex metallis dicta", "base_reading": "e lege metallis dicta", "variant_or_supplement": "The reference is treated as pointing to a mining-law regime distinct from the local service/fiscal chapters of Vipasca I.", "witnesses_for": [ "D", "T" ], "witnesses_against": [], "problem_type": "legal_sense", "confidence": "secure_restoration", "editorial_note": "Domergue's commentary argues that this named lex is not simply the same chapter of Vipasca I; apparatus should preserve the distinction." }, { "tablet": "Vipasca II", "section": "address", "line": "opening address", "base_reading": "Ulpio Aeliano suo salutem", "variant_or_supplement": "Sender and beginning of the address remain fragmentary in the checked texts.", "witnesses_for": [ "D", "T" ], "witnesses_against": [], "problem_type": "lacuna", "confidence": "visible", "editorial_note": "Do not identify the sender in the public text until FIRA/CIL/AE and Lazzarini are collated." }, { "tablet": "Vipasca II", "section": "2", "line": "Hadrianic silver-pit rule", "base_reading": "Putei argentari", "variant_or_supplement": "The clause is interpreted as a special Hadrianic liberalitas for silver pits, including payment of HS 4000 to the fisc.", "witnesses_for": [ "D", "T", "Mr" ], "witnesses_against": [], "problem_type": "legal_sense", "confidence": "secure_restoration", "editorial_note": "Mrozek supports the economic weight of the HS 4000 payment; exact lineation still belongs to the text-critical apparatus." }, { "tablet": "Vipasca II", "section": "5", "line": "six-month inactivity rule", "base_reading": "continuis sex mensibus", "variant_or_supplement": "A fisc-sold pit inactive for six continuous months becomes open to another occupator while the fisc's customary half-share remains protected.", "witnesses_for": [ "D", "T", "Ma" ], "witnesses_against": [], "problem_type": "legal_sense", "confidence": "visible", "editorial_note": "Maricic is used for the interpretation of limited ownership and continuity, not as a textual witness." }, { "tablet": "Vipasca II", "section": "9-10", "line": "ore movement and theft", "base_reading": "ab ortu solis in occasum; Venae furem", "variant_or_supplement": "Ore movement is limited to daylight; ore theft carries status-differentiated sanctions.", "witnesses_for": [ "D", "T", "Ma", "Mr" ], "witnesses_against": [], "problem_type": "legal_sense", "confidence": "visible", "editorial_note": "Keep the HS 1000 fine and the labor-protection interpretation separate: one is textual/fiscal, the other interpretive." }, { "tablet": "Vipasca II", "section": "15", "line": "new orebody exploration", "base_reading": "explorandi novi metalli causa", "variant_or_supplement": "Domergue reads nouum metallum as a new orebody known through the drainage adit/topography, not a generic search for any future mine.", "witnesses_for": [ "D" ], "witnesses_against": [], "problem_type": "technical_sense", "confidence": "probable_restoration", "editorial_note": "This must remain a site-controlled interpretation until checked against Lazzarini and any available archaeological plans." } ], "commentary_records": [ { "id": "comm_fiscal_apparatus", "level": "Fiscal-economic", "claim_label": "attested", "title": "Fiscally farmed district services", "comment": "Vipasca I is not only a list of services; it shows a district revenue system in which auction dues, praeconium, baths, craft monopolies, slag/quarry dues, and pittaciarium are attached to conductores and secured by pignus, duplum, or fiscal fines.", "source_anchors": [ "D", "T", "De", "C" ], "blocked_until": "Full apparatus must distinguish each payment from each monopoly and fine." }, { "id": "comm_occupatio", "level": "Legal", "claim_label": "attested", "title": "Occupatio and limited ownership", "comment": "Vipasca II treats access to pits through occupatio, fisc sale, work-continuity duties, partner contribution rules, and forfeiture. The colonus can hold and transfer shares, but the fisc's half-share and administrative declaration rules remain load-bearing.", "source_anchors": [ "D", "T", "Ma" ], "blocked_until": "Direct collation of the legal terminology in FIRA/CIL/AE and Lazzarini." }, { "id": "comm_hadrian_liberalitas", "level": "Fiscal-economic", "claim_label": "attested", "title": "Hadrianic liberalitas and HS 4000", "comment": "The silver-pit provision names Hadrian and sets a fixed payment to the fisc. The current dossier treats this as a targeted incentive to activate silver extraction, not as a modern tax exemption.", "source_anchors": [ "D", "Mr", "C" ], "blocked_until": "Quantitative comparison must stay marked as interpretive unless supported by Mrozek and further comparanda." }, { "id": "comm_administration", "level": "Social-administrative", "claim_label": "attested", "title": "District procurator and hierarchy", "comment": "Christol's checked article supports the distinction between provincial financial administration and district-level procuration at Vipasca. The dossier therefore separates procurator metallorum Vipascensium claims from wider provincial office claims.", "source_anchors": [ "Ch", "C" ], "blocked_until": "Prosopographic notes for Ulpius Aelianus, Saturninus, and Beryllus are line-cited." }, { "id": "comm_labor_caution", "level": "Social-administrative", "claim_label": "disputed", "title": "Labor regime and penal caution", "comment": "The tablets attest coloni, slaves, free persons, imperial dependents, schoolmasters, soldiers, and status-differentiated penalties such as flogging, conditional sale, confiscation, and exclusion from the mining territory. They do not, in the checked local Vipasca witnesses used here, attest damnati ad metalla as a local labor category. General Roman legal passages on metallum punishment therefore remain background-only unless a local Vipasca source is produced.", "source_anchors": [ "D", "T", "Ma", "R", "C" ], "blocked_until": "Every labor-status claim is tagged local attestation, legal background, or inference." }, { "id": "comm_technical_adit", "level": "Technical", "claim_label": "inferred", "title": "Drainage adit and nouum metallum", "comment": "The drainage-adit clauses can explain setbacks, protected infrastructure, and controlled exploration. Domergue's nouum metallum interpretation is plausible and site-based, but it must remain an inference until the full archaeological and textual dossier is collated.", "source_anchors": [ "D" ], "blocked_until": "Render or cite the relevant Domergue plan/pages and collate Lazzarini." }, { "id": "comm_date_problem", "level": "Textual", "claim_label": "disputed", "title": "Date of Vipasca I and II", "comment": "Vipasca II has a secure Hadrianic element in the silver-pit rule. Vipasca I remains a debated dossier because Domergue keeps it close to Vipasca II on palaeographic and contextual grounds, while Mrozek's denarius analysis can point to a later, possibly Antonine, horizon. The edition therefore treats the relation between Vipasca I and the Hadrianic core of Vipasca II as a chronology problem, not a solved premise.", "source_anchors": [ "D", "Mr", "B", "R" ], "blocked_until": "Palaeography, currency terminology, and publication history are collated in one note." }, { "id": "comm_lazzarini_boundary", "level": "Textual", "claim_label": "unverified", "title": "Lazzarini 2001 OCR generated, collation pending", "comment": "The 2001 Lazzarini monograph now has OCR sidecar text and a searchable PDF generated from the local scan. This build still does not use it for independent Vipasca II readings until the OCR is manually checked against the page images. The extractable 2012 S. Lazzarini FIRA-preparatory entry is listed as a modern control, not as a substitute for the monograph.", "source_anchors": [ "Lz", "Lz12", "F12" ], "blocked_until": "Manual page collation of Lazzarini 2001, followed by line-by-line comparison with Domergue, Thielmann, Bruns, and Riccobono/FIRA; Huebner remains a Vipasca I and edition-history control." }, { "id": "comm_direct_collation_boundary", "level": "Textual", "claim_label": "unverified", "title": "Full apparatus still pending direct collation", "comment": "The dossier has now located additional printed witnesses and source leads, and has generated OCR for Lazzarini 2001 and Magueijo 1970. A complete apparatus criticus still requires direct collation of Domergue, Lazzarini 2001, FIRA/CIL/ILS/AE, D'Ors, Flach, Magueijo, and later scholarship. Until then, the public text remains an analytical edition spine with apparatus seeds.", "source_anchors": [ "D", "T", "H", "B", "R", "Lz", "Lz12", "Mg", "Do", "Fl" ], "blocked_until": "Every named witness has either a directly checked line-by-line collation or remains marked pending." } ], "tablets": [ { "id": "vipasca_i", "conventional_title": "Lex territorio metalli Vipascensis dicta", "tablet": "Vipasca I", "find_context": "Found in 1876; cited in the existing center record as CIL II 5181 = ILS 6891.", "function": "District regulation for the fiscal and service economy inside the fines metalli Vipascensis.", "date_assessment": { "range": "late first to second century AD", "status": "debated", "note": "Domergue treats Vipasca I as close to Vipasca II palaeographically and perhaps Trajanic or early Hadrianic; Mrozek argues the denarius evidence could point later, toward Antoninus Pius." }, "clauses": [ { "id": "vip_i_1_centesima", "label": "Auction and pit-sale centesima", "latin_lemma": "Centesimae argentariae stipulationis", "summary": "A conductor collects one percent on auction sales inside the mining district, with exceptions for sales made by the procurator on imperial order; pit sales by the procurator are also brought into the dues system; pignus and duplum secure payment.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition, Vipasca I chapter 1", "Thielmann 1961 appendix, Vipasca I chapter 1", "Demelius 1883 discussion of centesima and conductor" ], "certainty": "attested_with_restored_gaps" }, { "id": "vip_i_2_praeconium", "label": "Public crier and auction fees", "latin_lemma": "Scripturae praeconii", "summary": "The farmer of the praeconium must provide a public crier within the district and collects scaled fees on sales, slave/animal listings, inventories, and certain fisc-related transactions; unpaid fees are backed by pignus and duplum.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition, Vipasca I chapter 2", "Thielmann 1961 appendix, Vipasca I chapter 2" ], "certainty": "attested_with_restored_gaps" }, { "id": "vip_i_3_baths", "label": "Bath concession", "latin_lemma": "Balinei fruendi", "summary": "The bath conductor heats and maintains the bath on a gendered daily schedule, charges small entry fees, exempts imperial staff, children, and soldiers, maintains water and equipment, and faces fiscal penalties for improper service or unauthorized wood sale.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition, Vipasca I chapter 3", "Thielmann 1961 appendix, Vipasca I chapter 3" ], "certainty": "attested_with_restored_gaps" }, { "id": "vip_i_4_shoemakers", "label": "Shoemakers and leather goods", "latin_lemma": "Sutrini", "summary": "Footwear and related leather work are reserved to the conductor, with limited private repair exceptions; the conductor must keep footwear available and has pignus rights against violators.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition, Vipasca I chapter 4", "Thielmann 1961 appendix, Vipasca I chapter 4" ], "certainty": "attested_with_restored_gaps" }, { "id": "vip_i_5_barbers", "label": "Barbers", "latin_lemma": "Tonstrini", "summary": "Paid barbering in the vicus and territory is monopolized by the conductor, with household slave service excepted; the clause gives penalties, instrument seizure, pignus, and provision for suitable practitioners.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition, Vipasca I chapter 5", "Thielmann 1961 appendix, Vipasca I chapter 5" ], "certainty": "attested_with_restored_gaps" }, { "id": "vip_i_6_fullers", "label": "Fullers", "latin_lemma": "Tabernarum fulloniarum", "summary": "Paid fulling or polishing of garments requires the conductor's authorization; unauthorized work is fined per garment and secured by pignus.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition, Vipasca I chapter 6", "Thielmann 1961 appendix, Vipasca I chapter 6" ], "certainty": "attested_with_restored_gaps" }, { "id": "vip_i_7_slag_quarries", "label": "Slag workers, ore rubble, and quarries", "latin_lemma": "Scripturae scaurariorum et testariorum", "summary": "Workers processing slag, metal-bearing rubble, dust, and quarry stone must declare labor and pay dues; imported metal-bearing rubble is charged by weight; nonpayment triggers duplum, pignus, and confiscation of processed material.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition, Vipasca I chapter 7", "Thielmann 1961 appendix, Vipasca I chapter 7" ], "certainty": "attested_with_restored_gaps" }, { "id": "vip_i_8_schoolmasters", "label": "Schoolmasters", "latin_lemma": "Ludi magistri", "summary": "Schoolmasters are exempted from burdens imposed by the procurator metallorum, a small but important indicator of ordinary settlement life inside the mining district.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition, Vipasca I chapter 8", "Thielmann 1961 appendix, Vipasca I chapter 8" ], "certainty": "attested" }, { "id": "vip_i_9_pittaciarium", "label": "Pit-right registration and pittaciarium", "latin_lemma": "Usurpationes puteorum sive pittaciarium", "summary": "A person taking possession of a pit or pit-place inside the district must register the act with the conductor of the relevant vectigal under the lex metallis dicta; the clause links Vipasca I to a separate mining-law regime.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition and commentary, Vipasca I chapter 9", "Thielmann 1961 appendix, Vipasca I chapter 9" ], "certainty": "fragmentary_but_institutionally_secure" } ] }, { "id": "vipasca_ii", "conventional_title": "Lex metallis dicta", "tablet": "Vipasca II", "find_context": "Found in 1906; cited in the existing center record as FIRA I 105 = AE 1906, 150.", "function": "Mining-law fragment governing occupatio, fiscal share, operating continuity, partnership finance, ore handling, theft, shaft safety, and drainage-adit protection.", "date_assessment": { "range": "Hadrianic core with possibly older/later inserted provisions", "status": "partly_secure", "note": "The special silver-pit rule names Hadrian as living emperor; Domergue treats some clauses as insertions into an older regulatory body." }, "clauses": [ { "id": "vip_ii_1_pre_smelting_payment", "label": "Payment before smelting and forfeiture", "latin_lemma": "pars occupatoris", "summary": "A colonus or occupator who smelts ore before paying the price of the fisc's half-share loses the occupator's part; the procurator sells the entire pit, and an informer receives a quarter share.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition, Vipasca II paragraph 1", "Thielmann 1961 appendix, Lex metallis dicta opening paragraph" ], "certainty": "fragmentary_opening_but_rule_secure" }, { "id": "vip_ii_2_hadrian_silver_pits", "label": "Hadrianic silver-pit liberalitas", "latin_lemma": "Putei argentari", "summary": "Silver pits are to be worked according to the form of the law; under Hadrian's liberalitas, the first payer who offers the pit price and pays HS 4000 to the fisc obtains the fisc's part of the silver pit.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition and commentary, Vipasca II paragraph 2", "Mrozek 1999 discussion of the HS 4000 payment" ], "certainty": "attested_with_interpretive_debate" }, { "id": "vip_ii_3_one_of_five", "label": "Work one of five pits to ore", "latin_lemma": "ex numero puteorum quinque", "summary": "If a miner brings one out of five pits to the ore, work must continue in the others without interruption; failure opens them to another occupator.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition, Vipasca II paragraph 3" ], "certainty": "attested" }, { "id": "vip_ii_4_capital_and_idle_period", "label": "Capital-preparation delay and ten-day idleness", "latin_lemma": "dies XXV", "summary": "After the permitted preparation period for expenses, work must begin promptly; ten continuous days of later idleness can reopen the pit to another occupator.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition, Vipasca II paragraph 4" ], "certainty": "attested" }, { "id": "vip_ii_5_six_month_forfeiture", "label": "Six-month inactivity after fisc sale", "latin_lemma": "continuis sex mensibus", "summary": "A pit sold by the fisc and then left inactive for six continuous months can be occupied by another, while the customary half-share for the fisc remains protected once ore is produced.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition, Vipasca II paragraph 5", "Maricic 2019 interpretation of continuity and limited ownership" ], "certainty": "attested" }, { "id": "vip_ii_6_partners_expenses", "label": "Partners and expense contribution", "latin_lemma": "socios quos volet", "summary": "An occupator may have partners; each partner contributes expenses according to share, with public notice and loss of share for non-contribution or fraudulent avoidance.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition, Vipasca II paragraph 6" ], "certainty": "attested" }, { "id": "vip_ii_7_coloni_recovery", "label": "Good-faith expense recovery", "latin_lemma": "bona fide", "summary": "Coloni who make expenses in a multi-partner pit have a right to recover what appears to have been spent in good faith.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition, Vipasca II paragraph 7" ], "certainty": "attested" }, { "id": "vip_ii_8_sale_of_parts", "label": "Sale, purchase, and donation of pit shares", "latin_lemma": "aput procuratorem", "summary": "Coloni may sell among themselves parts bought from the fisc, but sale and purchase require declaration before the procurator; a debtor of the fisc may not donate his share.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition, Vipasca II paragraph 8" ], "certainty": "attested" }, { "id": "vip_ii_9_ore_transport", "label": "Daylight transport of ore", "latin_lemma": "ab ortu solis in occasum", "summary": "Ore brought out to the pits must be carried to the workshops by its owners during daylight; removal after sunset or by night triggers a fiscal fine.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition, Vipasca II paragraph 9", "Maricic 2019 discussion of working time and labor conditions" ], "certainty": "attested" }, { "id": "vip_ii_10_ore_theft", "label": "Ore theft penalties", "latin_lemma": "Venae furem", "summary": "Ore theft is punished differently by status: a slave is flogged and sold under exclusionary conditions, while a free person suffers confiscation and permanent exclusion from the mining territory.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition, Vipasca II paragraph 10", "Maricic 2019 quoted legal passage and interpretation" ], "certainty": "attested" }, { "id": "vip_ii_11_timbering", "label": "Timbering and shaft support", "latin_lemma": "Putei omnes diligenter fulti", "summary": "All pits must be carefully supported and secured; rotten timber is to be replaced by new suitable material.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition, Vipasca II paragraph 11" ], "certainty": "attested" }, { "id": "vip_ii_12_pillars_supports", "label": "Safety pillars and supports", "latin_lemma": "pilas aut fulturas", "summary": "Pillars and supports left for structural security may not be touched, damaged, or fraudulently weakened.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition, Vipasca II paragraph 12" ], "certainty": "attested" }, { "id": "vip_ii_13_damage_penalties", "label": "Penalties for damaging a pit", "latin_lemma": "puteum vitiasse", "summary": "Damage that compromises pit stability brings status-differentiated penalties: flogging and conditional sale for a slave, confiscation and permanent exclusion for a free person.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition, Vipasca II paragraph 13" ], "certainty": "attested" }, { "id": "vip_ii_14_copper_adit_setback", "label": "Copper pits and drainage adit setback", "latin_lemma": "puteos aerarios", "summary": "Copper-pit workings must keep at least fifteen feet from the drainage adit on each side.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition, Vipasca II paragraph 14" ], "certainty": "attested" }, { "id": "vip_ii_15_new_metal_exploration", "label": "Exploration from the drainage adit", "latin_lemma": "explorandi novi metalli causa", "summary": "The adit may not be violated, but the procurator may allow a limited exploration gallery from it for a new orebody under dimension constraints.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition and commentary, Vipasca II paragraph 15" ], "certainty": "attested_interpreted_against_site_topography" }, { "id": "vip_ii_16_near_adit_mining_ban", "label": "No ore search inside the protected adit margin", "latin_lemma": "infra quinos denos pedes", "summary": "Searching for or cutting ore within the protected fifteen-foot margin of the drainage adit is forbidden.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition, Vipasca II paragraph 16" ], "certainty": "attested" }, { "id": "vip_ii_17_ternagi_penalties", "label": "Penalties for improper exploration galleries", "latin_lemma": "in ternagis", "summary": "Improper work in exploration galleries is punished by the same status-differentiated regime of flogging/conditional sale or confiscation/exclusion.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition, Vipasca II paragraph 17" ], "certainty": "attested" }, { "id": "vip_ii_18_silver_adit_setback", "label": "Silver pits, drainage adit, and assigned limits", "latin_lemma": "puteos argentarios", "summary": "Silver-pit workings must keep a sixty-foot setback from the drainage adit, remain within assigned or occupied boundaries, and avoid extension beyond the delimited pit.", "evidence": [ "Domergue 1983 edition, Vipasca II paragraph 18" ], "certainty": "fragmentary_closing_but_rule_secure" } ] } ], "institutional_reading": { "bounded_jurisdiction": "The repeated fines metalli frame, district conductores, procurator powers, and exclusion penalties make the metallum a bounded legal perimeter rather than an ordinary civic marketplace.", "allocated_exploitation": "Occupatio, fisc sales, assigned pit limits, partner rules, and forfeiture deadlines make production access administratively structured.", "fiscal_monopoly_apparatus": "Auction dues, praeconium, bath and craft monopolies, slag/quarry dues, pittaciarium, fiscal half-share, and penalties to the fisc form a dedicated revenue apparatus.", "administration": "Christol 1999 supports the distinction between provincial financial procuration and the district-level procurator metallorum Vipascensium known from the freedman Saturninus dossier.", "economic_scale": "Mrozek 1999 treats the HS 4000 payment as meaningful but not elite-level capital, pointing to small or middling occupatores rather than only large investors." }, "open_question_resolutions": [ { "id": "oq_full_apparatus_collation", "question": "A full critical apparatus should collate Domergue 1983, Lazzarini 2001, FIRA, CIL/ILS, D'Ors, Flach, Magueijo, and later scholarship directly.", "status": "addressed_as_audit_boundary_not_closed", "action_taken": "Added a collation-status register, expanded witness sigla, and built an OCR-guided collation workbench for the next manual apparatus pass. Huebner 1877 was located but scoped to Vipasca I and edition history; Bruns 1909, Riccobono/FIRA 1909, the 2012 FIRA-preparatory Lazzarini entry, and Magueijo 1970 were located or status-checked on disk. OCR sidecars and searchable PDFs were generated for Lazzarini 2001 and Magueijo 1970, but they remain collation aids rather than independent readings. D'Ors 1953 and Flach 1979 remain indirect leads because no directly collatable local copy was found in this pass.", "source_basis": [ "D", "T", "H", "B", "R", "Lz", "Lz12", "F12", "Mg", "Do", "Fl" ], "claim_policy": "No named witness is treated as collated unless its status says checked or entry located. Indirect leads cannot support a reading in the edited text.", "remaining_work": "Execute the collation-workbench queue, perform line-by-line collation across all located witnesses, check OCR against page images, and obtain/directly collate D'Ors 1953 and Flach 1979." }, { "id": "oq_lazzarini_2001_ocr", "question": "Lazzarini 2001 should be OCRed or manually collated before being used for independent readings of Vipasca II.", "status": "ocr_generated_pending_manual_collation", "action_taken": "Generated OCR sidecar text and a searchable PDF for the 2001 monograph with OCRmyPDF/Tesseract using Italian and Latin models. Representative pages were visually checked and entered into the collation workbench, especially page blocks 29, 31, 33, 35, and 37. The dossier still excludes Lazzarini 2001 from independent readings until the OCR is manually collated against page images, and lists the extractable 2012 S. Lazzarini entry only as a modern control.", "source_basis": [ "Lz", "Lz12", "F12" ], "claim_policy": "Lazzarini 2001 can be cited for independent Vipasca II readings only after manual page-image collation of the generated OCR.", "remaining_work": "Execute the workbench items for Lazzarini 2001 against Domergue, Thielmann, Bruns, and Riccobono/FIRA; use Huebner only for Vipasca I and edition-history control." }, { "id": "oq_vipasca_i_date", "question": "The date of Vipasca I remains debated, especially the relation between the denarius evidence and the Hadrianic core of Vipasca II.", "status": "addressed_as_disputed_chronology", "action_taken": "The date note and commentary now preserve the conflict: Vipasca II has a Hadrianic core in the silver-pit rule, while Vipasca I is not forced into the same date. Mrozek's denarius argument remains a live chronology control.", "source_basis": [ "D", "Mr", "B", "R" ], "claim_policy": "No paragraph may state a single secure date for Vipasca I unless it distinguishes palaeographic/contextual arguments from money-of-account arguments.", "remaining_work": "Create a dedicated chronology note collating palaeography, the denarius/sestertius distribution, and the edition-history witnesses." }, { "id": "oq_damnati_local_vs_background", "question": "The local attestation of damnati ad metalla should remain separate from general Roman legal category claims unless a local Vipasca source is cited.", "status": "addressed_by_claim_quarantine", "action_taken": "The labor commentary and collation-status register now separate local Vipasca attestations from general Roman legal background. The checked Vipasca witnesses support status-differentiated sanctions, not a local attestation of damnati ad metalla.", "source_basis": [ "D", "T", "Ma", "R" ], "claim_policy": "General metallum punishment belongs to background-only legal context. Local Vipasca labor claims require a local clause, inscription, or directly cited Vipasca source.", "remaining_work": "If a future local source attesting damnati ad metalla at Vipasca is found, add it as a separate evidence record and revise the labor note." } ], "open_questions": [ "Execute the Collation Workbench queue for Vipasca II sections address-18.", "Complete line-by-line collation of Domergue, Thielmann, Bruns, Riccobono/FIRA, Lazzarini 2012, and the uploaded secondary scholarship; keep Huebner 1877 scoped to Vipasca I and edition history.", "Manually collate Lazzarini 2001 OCR against page images before accepting independent readings from the monograph.", "Locate and directly collate D'Ors 1953 and Flach 1979.", "Manually collate Magueijo 1970 OCR against page images and normalize critical Latin readings.", "Write a dedicated chronology note for Vipasca I and the Hadrianic core of Vipasca II.", "Keep damnati ad metalla as background-only unless a local Vipasca source is added." ], "derived_files": { "html_dossier": "/production-ecology/dossiers/lex-metalli-vipascensis.html", "json_data": "/production-ecology/data/vipasca-edition.json" } }