La Vestale Massima Flavia Publicia e l'immunitas della tabella di Turris Libisonis

In order to frame the legal status of the Vestals in the imperial age re-garding the immunities granted to the priestesses of Vesta, the study of the tabulae immunitatis which mentions the Vestal Virgin Maxima Flavia Publicia, who lived in the 3rd century A.D., appears of great interest. The object of analysis will be the two tabulae immunitatis attesting to the granting of immunitas in jugo to Flavia Publicia and the tabula in naucella marina found in 2007 in Sardinia, in Porto Torres, the ancient Iu-lian colony of Turris Libisonis, in which reference is made to an unprecedented im-munity concerning the exemption from the payment of portoria for goods transport-ed from Flavia Publicia, from Turris Libisonis to Ostia, with a ship owned by her conducted by the slave of the Vestal Maxima, Eudromos, appointed by the priestess to the role of magister navis.