Description: Part of the mosaic
pavement of a small shrine.
Text: Two tabellae ansatae in mosaic:
a) die, w:
1.25 x h:
0.28;
b) die, w:
1.33 x h:
0.38.
Letters: a) lettering, 0.12. b) size of lettering not recorded.
Date: First-third centuries CE (content)
Findspot:
Tripoli:
Oea:
Near Fort Trigh Tarhuna:
part of the pavement of a small shrine found in 1912 (12 km. ESE of Tripoli, map ref. L 615655) and described by Aurigemma.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1912)
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(a): Caius Calpurnius Candidus paid his vow.
(b): Caius Calpurnius Candidus, having paid his vow gave and dedicated this.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1924, 54 ff, figs. 4, 6, 7; IRT, 1952, 245, whence IRT, 2009, 245, whence EDH 059215.
Images
None available (2021).