Description:
Mosaic floor.
Text: Mosaic emblema, comprising an inscribed tabella ansata
(die, w:
0.54 x h:
0.45)
within a wreath.
Letters: 0.05.
Date: Late fourth century (lettering)
Findspot:
Sabratha: Regio II,
late Fourth century floor of a house behind the Antonine Temple (insula 10, house G).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Sabratha Museum.
6: The sixth letter of this line is now destroyed, but appears in a photograph taken when first excavated.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
? The gratitude of a criminal yielded fortune to me who am so grateful; what use are you? because my fates [---] ? I persuade you [---] sparing (plural)[---]
(N.B. I do not understand this text.)
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 174, whence IRT, 2009, 174, whence EDH 059150; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. In situ: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS Leica 467 or 468)
Fig. 2. In situ: Ward-Perkins, 1946 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 46.III.11)
Fig. 3. Sabratha Museum: Sasha Coachman, 2009 (Wikimedia Commons)