540. Fragmentary ?building inscription

Description:
Damaged block (w: 1.14 x h: 0.42 x d: 0.47) of grey limestone.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Irregular capitals: from top of block; to bottom of l.1 (decapitated), 0.08; l.2, 0.13-0.20, to bottom of block, approx. 0.22. 
Date:
35-36 A.D. (prosopography) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, behind the Temple of Rome and Augustus, West of the Byzantine Wall. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Romanelli, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 VII:94, fig. 5. 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) 
C(aius) R[u]bellius Ḅḷ[andus proco(n)s(ul) ·· ? ··]
M(arcus) Etrilius Lupercus le[gatus pro praetore ·· ? ··]
CR[··]BELLIVS··[·············· ? ··]
METRILIVSLVPERCVSLE[············ ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aius
</ex>
</expan>
R
<supplied reason="lost" >
u
</supplied>
bellius
<unclear reason="damage" >
Bl
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
andus
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
proco
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ul
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arcus
</ex>
</expan>
Etrilius
Lupercus
le
<supplied reason="lost" >
gatus
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
pro
praetore
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

Caius Rubellius Blandus [proconsul ·· ? ··], Marcus Etrilius Lupercus [propraetorian legate ·· ? ··]

Commentary:

l. 1. C. Rubellius Blandus. Cos. suff. 18, procos. Africae 35-36 = PW I A, 1158, no. 5; also in 269, l. 2; 330, l. 3; 331, l. 3.

l. 2. M. Etrilius Lupercus. PIR (2) E 103; also in 330, l. 6; 331, l. 6.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 1091)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 1091)

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