330. Building dedication to Tiberius for road paving

Description:
Monumental inscription (w: 4.75 x h: 0.50) cut on each of the two faces of a simple arch of grey limestone. The text is identical with 331. a) South West Face b) North East Face 
Text:
Cut on each of the two faces 
Letters:
Rather irregular lapidary capitals: South West face, l. 1, 0.115; l. 2, 0.105; remainder, 0.08. North East face, l. 1, 0.12; l. 2, 0.105; remainder, 0.08. 
Date:
A.D. 35-36 (reign, titulature) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Decumanus maximus. 
Original Location:
Findspot 
Last recorded location:
Replaced in position across the Main Street at the angle of Reg. IV, ins. 3 and 4, and Reg. V, ins. 3 and 4. 
Bibliography:
Romanelli, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 VII:87ff., figs. 2, 3; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 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) 
a
Ti(berio) Caesari 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) patr[onus]
ex reditibus agrorum quos Le[pc]itanis resti[tui]t ui[a]s om[nis]
5ciuitatis Lepcitanae ster[nend]as silic[e] curauit]
M(arcus) Etr[i]liu[s L]upercus leg(atus) pro [p]r(aetore) patronus sub h[asta f(aciendum) l(ocauit)]
b
[T]i(berio) Caesari diui Aug(usti) f(ilio) Augusto [diu]i Iuli n(epoti) pont(ifici) max(imo) co(n)s(uli) V
imp(eratori) VIII trib(unicia) potest(ate) XXXVII
[C(aius) Rub]ẹḷ[l]ịus Blandus q(uaestor) diui Aug(usti) tr(ibunus) pl(ebis) [p]r(aetor) co(n)s(ul) proco(n)s(ul) pont(ifex) patronus
[ex reditib]us [a]grorum quos Lepcitanis resṭ[i]tuit uias omnis
5[ci]uitatịṣ Lep[citanae] s[te]rnendas silic[e] curauit
M(arcus) Etr[il]ius Luperc[us] [le]g(atus) pro pr(aetore) patronus sub h[asta f(aciendum) l(ocauit)]
a
TICAESARIDIVIAVGFAVGVSTODIVIIVLINPONTMAXCO[········]
IMPVIIITRIBPOTESTXXXVII
CRVBELLIVSBLANDVSQDIVIAVGTRPLPRCOSPROCOSPONTPATR[·····]
EXREDITIBVSAGRORVMQVOSLE[···]ITANISRESTI[····]TVI[··]SOM[····]
5CIVITATISLEPCITANAESTER[·····]ASSILIC[··]········]
METR[··]LIV[····]VPERCVSLEGPRO[··]RPATRONVSSVBH[·········]
b
[··]ICAESARIDIVIAVGFAVGVSTO[····]IIVLINPONTMAXCOSV
IMPVIIITRIBPOTESTXXXVII
[···········]··[··]·VSBLANDVSQDIVIAVGTRPL[··]RCOSPROCOSPONTPATRONVS
[···········]VS[··]GRORVMQVOSLEPCITANISRES·[··]TVITVIASOMNIS
5[···]VITAT··LEP[········]S[···]RNENDASSILIC[··]CVRAVIT
METR[···]IVSLVPERC[···][···]GPROPRPATRONVSSVBH[·········]
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b.3, << cos >> was originally omitted and inserted later.

Translation:

a. To Tiberius Caesar Augustus, son of the deified Augustus, grandson of deified Julius, chief priest, consul [for the fifth time], acclaimed victor for the eighth, 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 Lepcis were paved with silex. Marcus Etrilius Lupercus, his legate (senatorial assistant) and civic patron [let the contracts for the work].

b.To Tiberius Caesar Augustus, son of the deified Augustus, grandson of deified Julius, chief priest, consul [for the fifth time], acclaimed victor for the eighth, holding tribunician power for the thirty-seventh;[ Caius Rub]ellius 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 Lepcis were paved with silex. Marcus Etrilius Lupercus, his legate (senatorial assistant) and civic patron [let the contracts for the work.]

Commentary:

a) l. 1 trib. pot. XXXVII - July 35 - 30 June 36.

a) l. 2. C. Rubellius Blandus. Cos. suff. 18 = PW I A 1158, no. 5; also in 331 , l. 3 ; 540, l. 1; 269 , l. 2.

a) l. 4. Perhaps an aftermath of the war with Tacfarinas.

a) l. 6. M. Etrilius Lupercus. PIR 2 E 103; also in 331 , l. 6; 540 , l. 2.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 315)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 315)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 102 Lastre)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 102 Lastre)

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