Fragmentary <rs type="textType" cert="low">building</rs> inscriptionJ. M. ReynoldsJ. B. Ward-Perkins

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Republished from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.

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Description of Monument

Damaged block (1.140.420.47) of grey limestone.

Description of Text

Inscribed on one face.

Description of 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)

Locations

Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, behind the Temple of Rome and Augustus, West of the Byzantine Wall.

Unknown

Findspot

Bibliography

Romanelli, VII:94, fig. 5.

Text constituted from

Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)

Text Caius Rubellius Blandus proconsul Marcus Etrilius Lupercus legatus pro praetore
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)