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This paper examines some political-institutional, cultural, and religious dynamics in the border areas of Roman Tripolitania. The site of Ghirza, in particular, offers insights into the forms and content of intercultural exchange between the native groups and the Romano-Byzantines. The settlement was also crucial for the territorial political control of the Roman administration in those marginal areas. Some of the reliefs on the local mausolea show ceremonial scenes concerning the investiture of certain chiefs. Scholars have suggested that the depiction may refer to a Roman magistrate, such as praefectus or princeps gentis. This paper aims to better define the powers related to the tribal chief of Ghirza. It also attempts to distinguish the earliest legal-institutional basis on which this office may have been rooted. The Roman government in the borderlands acted as a guarantee of political legitimacy in the management of the confederations of tribes that gravitated on the Roman limes. In this sense, this research is supposed to identify the residual "fossils" of the Etruscan-Italic magistracies which in frontier contexts were much more suitable than the Roman magistracies for indirect political management. ; Questo contributo esamina alcune dinamiche politico-istituzionali, culturali e religiose nelle aree di confine della Tripolitania romana. Il sito di Ghirza, in particolare, offre spunti sulle forme e i contenuti dello scambio interculturale tra i gruppi nativi e i Romano-Bizantini. L'insediamento era anche cruciale per il controllo politico e territoriale dell'amministrazione romana in quelle aree marginali. Alcuni dei rilievi sui mausolei locali mostrano scene cerimoniali riguardanti l'investitura di alcuni capi. Gli studiosi hanno suggerito che la raffigurazione possa riferirsi a un magistrato romano, in qualità di praefectus o princeps gentis. Questo studio mira a definire meglio i poteri relativi al capo tribale di Ghirza. Tenta di individuare le più antiche basi giuridico-istituzionali su cui questa ...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Orietta Dora Cordovana / Gian Franco Chiai: Introduction. The Griffin and the Hunting -- Environment, pollution, and legal sources -- Cristina Simonetti: Uso e gestione delle acque in Mesopotamia nel Secondo Millennio a. C. -- Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi: Roman Rural Landscape and Legal Rules -- Environment and pollution in literary and epigraphic evidence -- Cinzia Bearzot: Ancient Ecology: problems of terminology -- Gian Franco Chiai: Rivers and Waters Protection in the Ancient World: how religion can protect the environment -- Arnaldo Marcone: L'evoluzione della sensibilità ambientale a Roma all'inizio del Principato -- Edoardo Bianchi: Floods of the Tiber in Rome under the Julio-Claudians -- Orietta Dora Cordovana: Pliny the Elder and Ancient Pollution -- Luca Montecchio: La cultura dell'ambiente in ambito monastico tra V e VIII secolo -- Environment, pollution, and diseases -- Elizabeth Craik: Malaria and the Environment of Greece -- Isabella Andorlini (†): Environmental Diseases according to Papyri from Egypt and Ancient Medical Thought -- Pollution and the Environment in Ancient life: Material Evidence -- Alain Bresson: Anthropogenic Pollution in Greece and Rome -- J. Donald Hughes: Deforestation and Forest Protection in the Ancient World -- Jocelyne Nelis-Clément: Roman Spectacles: exploring their environmental implications -- Indices.