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: l. 1, 0.055; ll. 2-4, 0.05; ll. 5-10, 0.04. 
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: 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.  
Bibliography:
R. Bartoccini, Le Terme di Lepcis (Afrika Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, IV), Bergamo, 1929, 93. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.  
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
Memoriae
M(arci) Pompei
Gaetulici M(arcus)
Pompeius Geta
5Chirit et Mar-
cia Rerycth pa-
rentes filio
piissimo ex
decreto ordi-
10nis posuer(unt)
MEMORIAE
MPOMPEI
GAETVLICIM
POMPEIVSGETA
5CHIRITETMAR
CIARERYCTHPA
RENTESFILIO
PIISSIMOEX
DECRETOORDI
10NISPOSVER
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<lb n="1" />
Memoriae
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arci
</ex>
</expan>
Pompei
<lb n="3" />
Gaetulici
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arcus
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="4" />
Pompeius
Geta
<lb n="5" />
Chirit
et
Mar
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
cia
Rerycth
pa
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
rentes
filio
<lb n="8" />
piissimo
ex
<lb n="9" />
decreto
ordi
<lb n="10" type="worddiv" />
nis
<expan>
<abbr>
posuer
</abbr>
<ex>
unt
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

To the memory of Marcus Pompeius Gaetulius; Marcus Pompeius Geta Chirit and Marcia Rerycth, his parents, set (this) up to a most dutiful son, in accordance with a decree of the city council.

Commentary:

ll. 2-6. M. Pompeius Geta Chirit et Marcia Rerycth. See also CIL VIII, 7518.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 247 Lastre)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 247 Lastre)

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