Description:
Fragment of a large bowl of Portasanta marble.  
Text:
Inscribed on one edge. 
Letters:
Capitals: 0.045.  
Date:
Second to early third centuries A.D. (prosopography)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Hadrianic Baths, in the West gymnasium.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
R. Bartoccini, Le Terme di Lepcis (Afrika Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, IV), Bergamo, 1929, 96. 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) 
[·· ? ··]s Geta aed(ilis) ex mult[is ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]SGETAAEDEXMVLT[····· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
s
Geta
<expan>
<abbr>
aed
</abbr>
<ex>
ilis
</ex>
</expan>
ex
mult
<supplied reason="lost" >
is
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] Geta, aedile, using the fines [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XV.24)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XV.24)

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