Description: Damaged block
(w:
1.14 x h:
0.42 x d:
0.47) of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Irregular capitals: from top of block; to bottom of line 1 (decapitated), 0.08; line 2, 0.13-0.20, to bottom of block, approx.
0.22.
Date: 35-36 CE (prosopography)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, behind the Temple of Rome and Augustus, West of the Byzantine Waline
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Caius Rubellius Blandus [proconsul ---], Marcus Etrilius Lupercus [propraetorian legate ---]
Commentary
C. Rubellius Blandus: PIR R 111, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/11481
M. Etrilius Lupercus: PIR E 0103; https://pir.bbaw.de/id/5617
Bibliography: Romanelli, 1940, VII:94, fig. 5; IRT, 1952, 540, whence Thomasson, 1996 80, IRT, 2009, 540, whence EDH 005252; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 1091)