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269. Dedication to Ceres

Description:: Moulded tabella ansata consisting of 10 blocks of grey limestone (together, 1w: 1.65 x h: 0.70 x d: 0.60).
Text:: Inscribed on one face.
Letters:: Lapidary capitals: l. 1, 0.20; l. 2, 0.18.
Date:: 35-36 A.D. (prosopography)
Findspot:: Lepcis Magna: Theatre, from the upper tiers of the caves, now recomposed and standing on the steps.
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Findspot
Bibliography:: Archäologischer Anzeiger (supplement to Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts), Berlin, 1939-1941:717. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.
Text constituted from:: Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)

Cereri Augustae sacrum
C(aius) Rubellius Blandus co(n)s(ul) pont(ifex) proco(n)s(ul) dedic(auit) Suphunibal ornatrix pat[ria]e Annobalis Rusonis d(e) s(ua) p(ecunia) f(aciendum) c(urauit)

CERERIAVGVSTAESACRVM
CRVBELLIVSBLANDVSCOSPONTPROCOSDEDICSVPHVNIBALORNATRIXPAT[····]EANNOBALISRVSONISDSPFC

<ab>

Cereri

Augustae

sacrum

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

aius

</ex>

</expan>

Rubellius

Blandus

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

pont

</abbr>

<ex>

ifex

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

proco

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

dedic

</abbr>

<ex>

auit

</ex>

</expan>

Suphunibal

ornatrix

pat

ria

</supplied>

Annobalis

Rusonis

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

ecunia

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

aciendum

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

urauit

</ex>

</expan>

</ab>

Translation:

Sacred to Ceres Augusta. Caius Rubellius Blandus, consul, pontifex (Roman priest), proconsul, dedicated (this); Suphunibal, adorner of her city, wife of Annobal Ruso, organised its construction at her own expense.