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>
<lb n="1" />
Cereri
Augustae
sacrum
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aius
</ex>
</expan>
Rubellius
Blandus
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ul
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
ifex
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
proco
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ul
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
dedic
</abbr>
<ex>
auit
</ex>
</expan>
Suphunibal
ornatrix
pat
<supplied reason="lost" >
ria
</supplied>
e
Annobalis
Rusonis
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
e
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ua
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
ecunia
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
aciendum
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
c
</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.

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.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1217 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1217 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (composite)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (composite)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (composite)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (composite)

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