Description: Part of a mosaic
panel comprising the left-hand side of a
tabella ansata
(die,w:
0.41 x h:
0.41)
Text: Mosaic letters within the tabella.
Letters: 0.07-0.09.
Date: Fourth century; the floor antedates the church in its present form.
Findspot:
Sabratha: Regio III,
(insula 4) Church 3: in the centre of the mosaic floor
between the altar and the bema of the Church .
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Sabratha Museum.
Fl(auius) Boni[fatius] exceptor [cu]m suis de[o] uotum s[oluit] Romanelli, 1940 ; BON[ . . . IRT, 1952
2: Exceptor [ . . ]; but the final letter is more easily read as N IRT, 1952
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Flavius Bon[ifatius?] shorthand writer, [with] his family, paid his vow
Bibliography: Romanelli, 1940b I:261; IRT, 1952 13, whence IRT, 2009 13, whence EDH 059012; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. In situ: Ward-Perkins,1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.IX.10)
Fig. 2. In museum: Roueché, 2010 (DSCN1435)