Building inscription of the Caesareum
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: First century CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

Block 2: [...], 141; [...] LXIII.1 with Letronne, p.393, whence [...], 10; [...], 205; Arch.Anz. 1938, 733, whence [...] 1939.120, whence [...] 022623; again, Arch.Anz. 1941, 703. E. Sjoqvist Opuscula Romana, I (1954) 99; republished [...], II.a.ii, whence [...] 1960.266; [...], C.2, C.4 and figs. 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, whence [...] 1974.667; Block 1 discussed [...], 194-197, and republished [...], 132-5; reconsidered [...], whence [...] 1995.1630; mentioned [...], 153.

Caius Rubellius Lucii filius Blandus proconsul porticus Caesarei restituit [...] [...]ius Marci filius Pacilaeus legatus pro praetore [...]

Apparatus

[^a1: at 1: C(aius) Rubelliu[s] Blan[dus] | C(aius) Rubellius L(ucii) [f(ilius)] Bl[andus] | C. Rubellius L. [f(ilius)] Bl[andus]]

Translations

Caius, son of Lucius, Rubellius Blandus, proconsul, [restored] the porticoes of the Caesareum [ . . . ]

[ . . . -]ius Pacilaeus, son of M(arcus) [ . . . propraetorian] legate [ . . . ]

Commentary

See also the inscription from the opposite portico, C.3, .

Line 1: Della Cella, Pacho and Ghislanzoni saw the whole of the word Caesarei; Pacho and Ghislanzoni also saw the next letter, R. This suggests the work carried out by Blandus should have been a restoration and might be connected with that by Sufenas Proculus, in C.9.

Rubellius Blandus, governor of Crete and Cyrene, is also attested in Crete, InsCret IV 293 (at PHI 200736); he seems also to be attested at Marruvium (see Gasperini (1996) loc cit.); see also Thomassen, Laterculi 38.009. He should not, therefore, be identified with the proconsul of Africa (PIR2 R.109) attested in Tripolitania: see IRT 269, and also IRT 330, IRT 331 and IRT 540 where a praetorian legate let the contract for construction undertaken at Lepcis Magna by the proconsul.

Line 2: Pacilaeus, PIR2 P.23, here and in C.3, is otherwise unknown.

There continues to be uncertainty as to whether the location of the blocks and the hand indicate that Blandus and Pacilaeus operated simultaneously. For a pro praetorian legate acting in the absence of the governor, cf. e.g. IRT 342.