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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<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Ti
</abbr>
<ex>
berio
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Caes
</supplied>
ari
diui
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilio
</ex>
</expan>
Augusto
diui
Iuli
<expan>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
epoti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
ifici
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
imo
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
s
</supplied>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
uli
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<num value="5" >
V
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</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="8" >
VIII
</num>
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
unicia
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
potest
</abbr>
<ex>
ate
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="37" >
XXXVII
</num>
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aius
</ex>
</expan>
Rubellius
Blandus
<expan>
<abbr>
q
</abbr>
<ex>
uaestor
</ex>
</expan>
diui
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
tr
</abbr>
<ex>
ibunus
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pl
</abbr>
<ex>
ebis
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pr
</abbr>
<ex>
aetor
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ul
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
proco
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ul
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
ifex
</ex>
</expan>
patronus
<lb n="4" />
ex
r
<supplied reason="lost" >
e
</supplied>
ditibus
agrorum
quos
Lepcitanis
restituit
uias
omnis
ciuitatis
Lepcitanae
ster
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
nendas
silice
curauit
<lb n="6" />
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arcus
</ex>
</expan>
Etrilius
Lupercus
<expan>
<abbr>
leg
</abbr>
<ex>
atus
</ex>
</expan>
pro
<expan>
<abbr>
pr
</abbr>
<ex>
aetore
</ex>
</expan>
patronus
sub
hasta
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
aciendum
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</expan>
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<abbr>
l
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<ex>
ocauit
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</ab>

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.

Commentary:

l. 2. trib. pot. XXXVII - July 35 - 30 June 36.

l. 3. C. Rubellius Blandus. Cos. suff. 18 = PW I A 1158, no. 5; also in 330, l. 3; 540, l. 1; 269, l. 2.

l. 4. See also 330. Perhaps an aftermath of the war with Tacfarinas.

l. 6. M. Etrilius Lupercus. PIR2E 103; also in 331 , I. 6; 540 , l. 2.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1359 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1359 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.XVII.25)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.XVII.25)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 135 Lastre)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 135 Lastre)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 136 Lastre)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 136 Lastre)

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