IRT: 0331. Building dedication to Tiberius for road paving

Description: Ten blocks of grey limestone (together, w: 4.75 x h: 0.95). An eleventh inscribed block is missing.
Text: Inscribed on one face only. The text is identical with 330.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.12; line 2, 0.09; remainder, 0.055-0.07.

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

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio V, (insula 14): From a simple arch across the street at the North angle of the Portico behind the Theatre .
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[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)

Diplomatic

[.......]ARIDIUIAUGFAUGUSTODIUIIULINPONTMAXCO[.][.]IMPVIII
TRIBPOTESTXXXVII
CRUBELLIUSBLANDUSQDIUIAUGTRPLPRCOSPROCOSPONTPATRONUS
EXR[.]DITIBUSAGRORUMQUOSLEPCITANISRESTITUITUIASOMNISCIUITATISLEPCITANAESTER
5NENDASSILICECURAUIT
METRILIUSLUPERCUSLEGPROPRPATRONUSSUBHASTAFL

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

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.