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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0170. Acclamation of greeting

Description: Mosaic floor.
Text: Mosaic emblema within a circle set within a square and divided horizontally into two unequal segments, the upper of which is inscribed. In the lower segment are represented strigils and an oil flask
Letters: 0.06-0.07.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (context)

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio V, Theatre Baths. In situ, with 171, in the Frigidarium. Regio V, insula 1.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Bene laba

Diplomatic

BENELABA

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Wash weline

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 170, whence IRT, 2009, 170, whence EDH 059146; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 160 Lastre)