649. Posthumous honours for M. Pompeius Gaetulicus
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Memoriae
<lb
n="2"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
arci
</ex>
Pompei
<lb
n="3"
/>
Gaetulici
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
arcus
</ex>
<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>
</expan>
unt
</ex>
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)
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