@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt7ztwqp.7, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7ztwqp.7}, abstract = {To legal historians, the Edict of the Urban Praetor is the perfectly familiar stuff of scholarship; its numerous rubrics and headings constitute the major procedural framework within which the classical jurists operated, and so historians have had to become intimately acquainted with its convoluted phraseology. Yet probably few scholars have seriously considered what the Edict must have looked like, and perhaps even fewer have seen the attempted recreation of it in the Museo della Civiltà Romana in the Roman suburb of EUR.¹The visual display at the Museo brings out one important feature of the Edict: it cannot be read}, bookauthor = {Bruce W. Frier}, booktitle = {The Rise of the Roman Jurists: Studies in Cicero's "Pro Caecina"}, pages = {42--94}, publisher = {Princeton University Press}, title = {The Urban Praetor: P. Cornelius Dolabella}, year = {1985} }