Besides mentions in the Historia Augusta, Geta is known from several inscriptions, two of which were found in Leptis Magna, Africa (East of Tripoli in modern Libya).
[3] His family were local, wealthy and distinguished in Leptis Magna, a prominent city of the Carthaginian Empire, founded by Phoenicians.
[5] While Geta seems to have held no political offices, either local or imperial, other members of his family were distinguished.
198), a woman of Roman descent belonging to the gens Fulvia, an Italian patrician family that originated in Tusculum.
[7] He died after his son Septimius had achieved the rank of quaestor, and was about to set off for Baetica to serve as proconsul, i.e. in 171.