IRT: 0330. 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, line 1, 0.115; line 2, 0.105; remainder, 0.08. North East face, line 1, 0.12; line 2, 0.105; remainder, 0.08.

Date: CE 35-36: GODOT (internal date)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Decumanus maximus.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Replaced in position across the Main Street at the angle of Regio IV, insula 3 and 4, and Regio V, insula 3 and 4.

Interpretive

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)]

[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)]

Diplomatic

TICAESARIDIUIAUGFAUGUSTODIUIIULINPONTMAXCO[.][.]
IMPVIIITRIBPOTESTXXXVII
CRUBELLIUSBLANDUSQDIUIAUGTRPLPRCOSPROCOSPONTPATR[....]
EXREDITIBUSAGRORUMQUOSLE[..]ITANISRESTI[...]TUI[.]SOM[...]
5CIUITATISLEPCITANAESTER[....]ASSILIC[........]
METR[.]LIU[..]UPERCUSLEGPRO[.]RPATRONUSSUBH[........]

[.]ICAESARIDIUIAUGFAUGUSTO[...]IIULINPONTMAXCOSV
IMPVIIITRIBPOTESTXXXVII
[.][...]..[.].USBLANDUSQDIUIAUGTRPL[.]RCOSPROCOSPONTPATRONUS
[.........]US[.]GRORUMQUOSLEPCITANISRES.[.]TUITUIASOMNIS
5[..]UITAT..LEP[.......]S[..]RNENDASSILIC[.]CURAUIT
METR[..]IUSLUPERC[....]GPROPRPATRONUSSUBH[........]

b.3: << cos >> was originally omitted and inserted later.

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

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.]