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331. Building dedication to Tiberius for road paving

Description:: Ten blocks of grey limestone (together, w: 4.75 x h: 0.95) inscribed on one face only. . An eleventh inscribed block is missing.
Text:: Inscribed on one face only. The text is identical with 330.
Letters:: Lapidary capitals: l. 1, 0.12; l. 2, 0.09; remainder, 0.055-0.07.
Date:: A.D. 35-36 (reign, titulature)
Findspot:: Lepcis Magna: From a simple arch across the street at the North angle of the Portico behind the Theatre (Reg. .V, ins. 14).
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Findspot
Bibliography:: Romanelli, Afr. Ital. VII (1940) 87 ff,., figs. 2, 3; L'Ann. Ep. 1948, 1 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)

[Ti(berio) Caes]ari diui Aug(usti) f(ilio) Augusto diui Iuli n(epoti) pont(ifici) max(imo) co(n)[s(uli) V] imp(eratori) VIII
trib(unicia) potest(ate) XXXVII
C(aius) Rubellius Blandus q(uaestor) diui Aug(usti) tr(ibunus) pl(ebis) pr(aetor) co(n)s(ul) proco(n)s(ul) pont(ifex) patronus
ex r[e]ditibus agrorum quos Lepcitanis restituit uias omnis ciuitatis Lepcitanae ster-
5nendas silice curauit
M(arcus) Etrilius Lupercus leg(atus) pro pr(aetore) patronus sub hasta f(aciendum) l(ocauit)

[········]ARIDIVIAVGFAVGVSTODIVIIVLINPONTMAXCO[········]IMPVIII
TRIBPOTESTXXXVII
CRVBELLIVSBLANDVSQDIVIAVGTRPLPRCOSPROCOSPONTPATRONVS
EXR[··]DITIBVSAGRORVMQVOSLEPCITANISRESTITVITVIASOMNISCIVITATISLEPCITANAESTER
5NENDASSILICECVRAVIT
METRILIVSLVPERCVSLEGPROPRPATRONVSSVBHASTAFL

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berio

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Caes

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ari

diui

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Aug

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usti

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ilio

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Augusto

diui

Iuli

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epoti

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pont

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ifici

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max

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imo

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uli

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imp

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eratori

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VIII

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trib

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unicia

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potest

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ate

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XXXVII

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<ex>

aius

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Rubellius

Blandus

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uaestor

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diui

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Aug

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usti

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ibunus

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ebis

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aetor

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<ex>

</ex>

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proco

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pont

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ifex

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patronus

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ditibus

agrorum

quos

Lepcitanis

restituit

uias

omnis

ciuitatis

Lepcitanae

ster

nendas

silice

curauit

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<ex>

arcus

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Etrilius

Lupercus

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leg

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atus

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</expan>

pro

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<ex>

aetore

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patronus

sub

hasta

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<abbr>

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aciendum

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ocauit

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Translation:

To Tiberius Caesar Augustus, son of the deified Augustus, grandson of deified Julius, chief priest, consul [for the fifth time], acclaimed victor for the eight, holding tribunician power for the thirty-seventh; Caius Rubellius Blandus, quaestor of deified Augustus, tribune of the people, praetor, consul, proconsul, priest, patron, using the income from land which he restored to the people of Lepcis, [saw to it] that all the streets of the city of Lapcis were paved with silex. Marcus Etrilius Lupercus, his legate (senatorial assistent) and civic patron let the contracts for the work.