Description: Rectangular base
(w:
0.48 x h:
0.97 x d:
0.49) of
grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die,
w:
0.28 x h:
0.75).
Letters: Rustic capitals: line 1, 0.055; line 2-4, 0.05; line 5-10, 0.04.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio II,
Hadrianic Baths, found re-used in a late wall blocking the West entrance to the Palaestra
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
North portico of the Palaestra.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To the memory of Marcus Pompeius Gaetulius; Marcus Pompeius Geta Chirit and Marcia Rerycth, his parents, set (scil. this) up to a most dutiful son, in accordance with a decree of the city council.
Commentary
Line 2-6. M. Pompeius Geta Chirit et Marcia Rerycth. See also CIL VIII, 7518.
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1929, 93; IRT, 1952, 649, whence IRT, 2009, 649, whence EDH 059502; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Face: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 247 Lastre)
Fig. 2. View: Tantillo (2005)
Fig. 3. Face: Tantillo (2005)