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of a pavement, but has been slightly displaced. It has given rise to much discussion; and the state of our knowledge with regard to the content of the text is summarised by Lommatzsch in CIL i². I. 'It seems,' he says, 'that it is a law or laws as to certain rites to be performed by the king or perhaps by those in attendance on the king in the comitium. To attempt to define it further would be useless, as we do not even know how much of the cippus is lost.' As to the date, he fixes it about 500 B.C., as being slightly later than the fibula of Praeneste (ib. 3). Cf. also AJP 1907, 249-272, 373-400. The freshness of the surface may be explained by the fact that it was covered with stucco. (2) a conical column of tufa dating from the fifth century. (3) the so-called sacellum-consisting of (a) a rectangular foundation of one course of tufa blocks, on which rest two bases, each 2.66 metres long and I.31 broad; these support pedestals of tufa with curved profiles, probably to be reconstructe