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With regard to the discovery site we are able only to hypothesise – it is not certain whether it was found in a town in Latium, in Italy, or overseas. It may indeed have been found in Rome, where the slab – a personal copy on marble of the bronze decree – was displayed in the house of the governor it honours. Or the fragment may have arrived in Rome from another city as a material to be reused. It is certain, as revealed by the formulas and vocabulary typical of similar official documents, that the decree, fragmentary and difficult to reintegrate, was enacted by the assembly of local administrators of a city community dependent on Rome ([municipi]o nostro in line 4) and must have increased the agreed sum (multiplicaverit, line 9), perhaps because the work had proved more expensive than estimated.