Abstract
THROUGHOUT THE REPUBLIC and Empire (roughly from the fifth century B.C. to the sixth century A.D.) the Romans regularly had statutes, decrees, treaties, and edicts engraved on bronze tablets. Some statutes and interstate treaties were engraved exclusively on bronze, never on stone. Bronze tablets survive only from the second century B.C. onward, but ancient writers testify that bronze tablets had been engraved with statutes and treaties in Rome before the beginning of the Republic. And the practice persisted until A.D. 500. The surviving bronze tablets are central to the study of Roman law. Among them, for example, are the texts of about twenty-three statutes made by the Roman people (leges and plebiscita) in the last two centuries B.C. Al
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