Description:
Mosaic
floor
Text: Mosaic emblema of a circle within a square;
below the text are representations of strigils, sandals
and an oil-flask
Letters: 0.05-0.06.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (context)
Findspot:
Sabratha: Regio V,
Theatre Baths, insula 1 with 170.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Sabratha Museum.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
It is well to have washed.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 171, whence IRT, 2009, 171, whence EDH 059147; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. In situ: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XIX.13)
Fig. 2. In situ: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XIX.14)
Fig. 3. In Sabratha Museum: Hakim Gadi, 2003 (Wikimedia Commons)