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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Cereri
Augustae
sacrum
<lb
n="2"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
aius
</ex>
Rubellius
Blandus
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ul
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ifex
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
proco
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ul
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
dedic
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
auit
</ex>
Suphunibal
ornatrix
pat
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ria
</supplied>
e
Annobalis
Rusonis
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
e
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ua
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ecunia
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
aciendum
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
c
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
urauit
</ex>
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.
Commentary:
l. 2. C. Rubellius Blandus. Cos. suff.. 18. procos. Africae 35- 36, PW I A, 1158 no. 5; also in 330, l. 3; 331 l. 1. 3; 540. l. 1.
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