Senatus consulta in lateinischen Inschriften aus den Provinzen

The article analyses a corpus of thirteen senatus consulta known by Latin inscriptions found in the Roman provinces. It begins from some considerations based on the senatus consultum de Cn. Pisone patre, concerning the political effects produced by frequent non-publication and the marginality of the number of them that were made accessible to the community by public diffusion. Then it examines form (language, date, number and name of senators belonging to the assembly) and content of senatus consulta belonging to the corpus taken into consideration. Finally it concludes emphasizing the dominance of the Imperial power in the process of their formulation, until the second half of the second century A.D.