"Tabula Leersumiana"

In the Roman Empire, important decisions by the municipal council, letters by the emperor, laws, and other important documents were often written on bronze and exposed on a place where everyone could see them. The fragments of the Flavian municipal law from Andalusia are a deservedly famous example.

In 2003, a very small fragment of a similar text was discovered in Leersum, a town in the Netherlands, north of the ancient limes. It contains a couple of words from a speech or a letter, but the text is too short to understand what it means. It is also unknown where the text originally belonged, although it is possible that it comes from a nearby limes fort like Maurik or Rijswijk. What we do know, however, is that the object was taken away from a Roman military settlement by German looters, who cut it into pieces to melt it in an oven. 

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